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OverviewWhat 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. 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 of 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; from the influence of celebrity activism to the growing role of social media. By examining a variety of media forms, from television and radio 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tristan Anne BorerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Zed Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 13.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9781780320670ISBN 10: 1780320671 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 08 November 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: willful ignorance - news production, audience reception, and responses to suffering - Tristan Anne Borer 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. 'Fresh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns - Tristan Anne Borer 6. Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time - Andrew F. Cooper and 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. PruceReviews'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, in 'Media, Mobilization and Human Rights', 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 up not only immensely valuable lessons for educators and NGOs, but needed arenas for future study.' Professor Susan Moeller, author of 'Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit' '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, author of Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit 'Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights 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 '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 Author InformationTristan Anne Borer is professor of government and international relations at Connecticut College in New London, CT. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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