Media, mobilization, and human rights : mediating suffering

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borer, Tristan Anne , 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Zed Books , c2012
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300 |a viii, 251 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 22 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s : cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam -- 2. Framing a rights ethos : artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders -- 3. How editors choose which human rights news to cover : a case study of Mexican newspapers -- 4. Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States -- 5. 'Fresh, wet tears' : shock media and human rights awareness campaigns -- 6. Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time -- 7. Amplifying individual impact : social media's emerging role in activism -- 8. The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia 
520 |a This text investigates the assumption that exposure to human rights violations in countries far away causes people to respond with activism to end atrocities 
650 0 |a Human rights advocacy 
650 0 |a Human rights in mass media 
650 0 |a Humanitarian intervention   |x Press coverage 
700 1 |a Borer, Tristan Anne ,   |d 1965- ,   |e author 
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