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Media Witnessing

Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication

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Editors:
  1. Paul Frosh

    1. Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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  2. Amit Pinchevski

    1. Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Paul Frosh, Amit Pinchevski
      Pages 1-19

  3. Perspectives on Media Witnessing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Witnessing

      • John Durham Peters
      Pages 23-48

    3. Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers

      • Paul Frosh
      Pages 49-72

    4. Mundane Witness

      • John Ellis
      Pages 73-88

    5. Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication

      • Günter Thomas
      Pages 89-111

    6. Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media

      • Menahem Blondheim, Tamar Liebes
      Pages 112-130

  4. Performances of Media Witnessing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Witnessing as a Field

      • Tamar Ashuri, Amit Pinchevski
      Pages 133-157

    3. From Danger to Trauma

      • Carrie Rentschler
      Pages 158-181

    4. Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation

      • Joan Leach
      Pages 182-197

    5. Witnessing Trauma on Film

      • Roy Brand
      Pages 198-215

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 216-231
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About this book

From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader implications of 'media witnessing'.

Reviews

'Why are witnesses to salient socio-political events so important in our age of global media reporting? Testimonies are sometimes the only chance to arrive at more information which would, otherwise, have been swept under the carpet. This excellent book elaborates on, and challenges, the complex and difficult roles of eye witnesses and of the media in truly innovative interdisciplinary ways. Everybody who deals with media in their everyday lives will be able to gain new insights.' - Professor Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK

'This is a most valuable collection of essays. Innovative, engrossing and rewarding, it provides an excellent exploration of media witnessing and is definitely to be recommended.'

- European Journal of Communication

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communications and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Paul Frosh, Amit Pinchevski

About the editors

TAMAR ASHURI Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and in the School of Communications at Sapir Academic College, Israel MENAHEM BLONDHEIM Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ROY BRAND Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, USA JOHN ELLIS Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ELIHU KATZ Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research, Israel JOAN LEACH Convenor of the Science Communication Programme at the University of Queensland, Australia TAMAR LIEBES Professor of Media and Journalism and holder of the Carl and Matilda Newhouse Chair in Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JOHN DURHAM PETERS F.Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, USA CARRIE A. RENTSCHLER Assistant Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Canada G?NTER THOMAS Professor of Protestant Theology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Media Witnessing

  • Book Subtitle: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication

  • Editors: Paul Frosh, Amit Pinchevski

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230235762

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55149-7Published: 27 November 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30135-1Published: 27 November 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23576-2Published: 27 November 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 231

  • Topics: Screen Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Human Rights, Industries, Media Research

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