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
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New York :
Zed Books ,
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Table of Contents:
- 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