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

Other author Borer, Tristan Anne, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Zed Books, : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionviii, 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Contents 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. F̀resh, 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.
Summary This text investigates the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012474295
ISBN9781780320670 (pbk.)
ISBN1780320671 (pbk.)
ISBN9781780320694
ISBN1780320698

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