Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict

Mette Mortensen

doi:10.4324/9780203520680

Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict

Mette Mortensen

Department of Communication

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Abstract

Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid, however, to non-professional, eyewitness visuals, even though this genre holds a still greater bearing on the way conflicts are fought, communicated, and covered by the news media. This volume examines the power of new technologies for creating and disseminating images in relation to conflicts. Mortensen presents a theoretical framework and uses case studies to investigate the impact of non-professional images with regard to essential issues in todays media landscape: including new media technologies and democratic change, the political mobilization and censorship of images, the ethics of spectatorship, and the shifting role of the mainstream news media in the digital age.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Routledge
Number of pages	182
ISBN (Print)	9780415828499
ISBN (Electronic)	9780203520680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203520680
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2014

Series	Routledge research in journalism
Volume	8

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