| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Distant Suffering on Television; Chapter 1 -- Mediation and Public Life; Chapter 2 -- The Paradoxes of Mediation; Chapter 3 -- Mediation, Meaning and Power; Chapter 4 -- The Analytics of Mediation; Chapter 5 -- Adventure News: Suffering without Pity; Chapter 6 -- Emergency News: Suffering with Pity; Chapter 7 -- Ecastatic Hews: Suffering and Identification; Chapter 8 -- Mediation and Action; Chapter 9 -- The Cosmopolitian Public; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Lilie Chouliaraki grounds her sophisticated arguments in meticulous research. The result is a work of important scholarship that might even make us think about the world and its mediation in profoundly new ways"--Roger Silverstone, Professor of Media and Communications, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Tsunami, famine, terrorist outrage, hurricane, earthquake every day we are confronted by the suffering of distant others, but how are we supposed to feel? How are we meant to react? This book addresses a topic of urgent and pressing moral concern: the political, cultural a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Suffering.
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Suffering -- Moral and ethical aspects
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Suffering
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Suffering -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Elend
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Soziale Distanz
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Ethik
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Massenmedien
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Berichterstattung
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katastrophē
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Suffering.
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Mass media.
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Image building.
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Ethical aspects.
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Lidande -- etik och moral.
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Westliche Welt
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Entwicklungsländer
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005933548 |
| ISBN |
9781847877222 |
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1847877222 |
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9781446220658 |
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1446220656 |
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9781446224380 |
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1446224384 |
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