Media witnessing
Subtitle: testimony in the age of mass communication
By: Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski.
Contributors: Pinchevski, Amit, 1971-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780230551497
Subjects: Mass media -- Influence; Reporters and reporting; Mass media -- Audiences
Description: "Do mass media turn us all into witnesses, and what might this mean? From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of far-flung and often horrifying events, experienced by people whom we do not know personally, and mediated by a range of changing technologies. What is the truth status of such 'media witnessing', and how does it depend on journalists and media organizations?" "These are the themes taken up by the contributors to this volume, among them some of the leading contemporary thinkers in communication and media studies. Together they not only make a crucial intervention in ongoing debates about media witnessing and the representation of strangers, but present original conceptualizations of the relationship between knowledge, discourse and technology in the era of mass communications."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.