Media representation and the global imagination

Media representation and the global imagination : a framework -- Imagining others : representations of natural disasters -- Imagining ourselves : representations of the nation -- Imagining possible lives : representations of migration -- Imagining the world : representations of New Year celebrations...

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1. Verfasser: Orgad, Shani (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Polity Press 2012
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Global media and communication
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Zusammenfassung:Media representation and the global imagination : a framework -- Imagining others : representations of natural disasters -- Imagining ourselves : representations of the nation -- Imagining possible lives : representations of migration -- Imagining the world : representations of New Year celebrations -- Imagining the self -- Conclusion : nothing gets you closer revisited.
This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others' lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration, and celebration. The book explores how images, stories, and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers invite us daily to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives by developing "mediated intimacy" and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation - the other, the nation, possible lives, the world, the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it, and our relation to far-away others. -- Back cover
This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others' lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration, and celebration. The book explores how images, stories, and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers invite us daily to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives by developing "mediated intimacy" and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation - the other, the nation, possible lives, the world, the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it, and our relation to far-away others. -- Back cover
Beschreibung:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 230 S.
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23 cm
ISBN:9780745643809
978-0-7456-4380-9
9780745643793
978-0-7456-4379-3
0745643795
0-7456-4379-5
0745643809
0-7456-4380-9