Media, mobilization, and human rights
Subtitle: mediating suffering
By: edited by Tristan Anne Borer
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781780320687; 9781780320670; 9781780320694
Subjects: Human rights in mass media; Human rights advocacy
Description: This text investigates the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1.; title: Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s: cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam  -- David Kieran -- 2.; title: Framing a rights ethos: artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders  -- Michael Galchinsky -- 3.; title: How editors choose which human rights news to cover: a case study of Mexican newspapers  -- Ella McPherson -- 4.; title: Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States  -- Dan Chong -- 5.; title: F̀resh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns  -- Tristan Anne Borer -- 6.; title: Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time  -- Joseph F. Turcotte -- 7.; title: Amplifying individual impact: social media's emerging role in activism  -- Sarah Kessler -- 8.; title: The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia -- Joel R. Pruce.