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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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