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Product Description What impact do mass media portrayals of atrocities have on activism? Why do these news stories sometimes mobilize people, while at other times they are met with indifference? Do different forms of media have greater or lesser impacts on mobilization? These are just some of the questions addressed in Media, Mobilization and Human Rights, which investigates the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities. ----- Turning a critical eye on existing scholarship which argues either that viewing and reading about violence can serve as a force for good (through increased activism), or as a source for evil (by objectifying and exploiting the victims of violence), the authors argue that reality is far more complex, and that there is nothing inherently positive or negative about exposure to the suffering of others. In exploring this, the book offers an array of case studies: from human rights reporting in Mexican newspapers to the impact of media imagery on humanitarian intervention in Somalia; the influence of celebrity activism to the growing role of social media. ----- By examining a variety of media forms - from television and radio through to social networking - the interdisciplinary set of authors present radical new ways of thinking about the intersection of media portrayals of human suffering and activist responses to them. Review 'In a global media age communications are pivotal in the mobilization of human rights around the world, especially when denied in atrocious acts of inhumanity. This timely, insightful book throws a critical spotlight on mediated suffering, its power and performance.' Professor Simon Cottle, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University 'Tristan Anne Borer has done a great service for both academics and activists by summarizing research on the world's "failure to act" in the face of human rights atrocities. Case studies serve to illuminate when inaction has been a news production or an audience reception problem, and point out not only immensely valuable lessons for educators and NGOs, but needed arenas for future study.' Professor Susan Moeller, Philip Merrill School of Journalism 'This is the book that scholars in the humanities and human rights have been waiting for. Together, its contributors push perennial questions about the relationship between violence and the image, between seeing and acting, and between the aspirations and the limits of cosmopolitanism to new levels of understanding. Theoretically sophisticated and historically substantial, the eminently readable essays in this volume employ impeccable close readings and analysis, case studies, and empirical evidence to advance powerful conclusions regarding the role of the media and cultural texts in struggles for recognition of global suffering and, alternatively, for building cultures of human rights.' Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, associate professor, Babson College, Massachusetts About the Author Tristan Anne Borer is Professor of Government and International Relations at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut

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Brand: Zed Books
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 178032068X
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Radio > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 November 2012
Listed Since: 07 December 2011

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