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Media, mobilization, and human rights : mediating suffering / edited by Tristan Anne Borer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Zed Books, : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.Description: viii, 251 pages. : illustrations. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781780320670 (pbk.)
  • 1780320671 (pbk.)
  • 9781780320694
  • 1780320698
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 23
LOC classification:
  • P96.H85 M434 2012
Contents:
1. Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s: cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam / David Kieran -- 2. Framing a rights ethos: artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders / Michael Galchinsky -- 3. How editors choose which human rights news to cover: a case study of Mexican newspapers / Ella McPherson -- 4. Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States / Dan Chong -- 5. F̀€resh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns / Tristan Anne Borer -- 6. Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time / Joseph F. Turcotte -- 7. Amplifying individual impact: social media's emerging role in activism / Sarah Kessler -- 8. The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia / Joel R. Pruce.
This text investigates the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities.
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Loan Margaret Thatcher Library First Floor P96. H85m434 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 23012798

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s: cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam / David Kieran -- 2. Framing a rights ethos: artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders / Michael Galchinsky -- 3. How editors choose which human rights news to cover: a case study of Mexican newspapers / Ella McPherson -- 4. Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States / Dan Chong -- 5. F̀€resh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns / Tristan Anne Borer -- 6. Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time / Joseph F. Turcotte -- 7. Amplifying individual impact: social media's emerging role in activism / Sarah Kessler -- 8. The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia / Joel R. Pruce.

This text investigates the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities.

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