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Lilie Chouliaraki - Spectatorship Of Suffering - 9780761970408 - V9780761970408
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Spectatorship Of Suffering

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Description for Spectatorship Of Suffering Paperback. Addresses the topic of the political, cultural and moral effects of other people's mediated suffering. This work offers a theoretical perspective on the role of media in global civil society, and looks at how we might begin to analyse the ways in which distant suffering is portrayed, reproduced and consumed. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
`The work is on an important topic that has been oft debated but rarely systematically studied - the political, cultural, and moral effects of distant news coverage of suffering. [The book] is extremely well steeped in the relevant literature, including semiotics, discourse analysis, media and social theory and makes a fresh methodological contribution by looking at the codes and formats of news about suffering. It has a fresh vision and answer to some of the stickiest moral and media problems of our time… and deserves to find its place among important books about the moral aspects of media and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9780761970408
SKU
V9780761970408
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About Lilie Chouliaraki
Lilie Chouliaraki′s research interests broadly include Social and Cultural Theory, Ethics and Political Philosophy as well as Corporate Communication, Communication Theory and Discourse Studies. Her research focuses on the nature of mediated public discourse from an ethical and political perspective. She has published extensively on the moral implications of the media in contemporary public life, particularly on the link between ... Read more

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