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Media, mobilization, and human rights : mediating suffering / edited by Tristan Anne Borer. - 251 p. ill.

Machine generated contents note: Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s: cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam / Framing a rights ethos: artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders / How editors choose which human rights news to cover: a case study of Mexican newspapers / Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States / F̀resh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns / Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time / Amplifying individual impact: social media's emerging role in activism / The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia / David Kieran -- Michael Galchinsky -- Ella McPherson -- Dan Chong -- Tristan Anne Borer -- Joseph F. Turcotte -- Sarah Kessler -- Joel R. Pruce. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

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

ISBN: 9781780320687 178032068X 9781780320700

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights in mass media.
Human rights advocacy.

LC Class. No.: P96 / M488 2012