'Media witnessing'teeters on the brink of tautology. On the one hand, every act of witnessing
implies some kind of mediation: most fundamentally, putting an experience into language for …

Witnessing has recently become a contested issue in media scholarship, constituting a
complex practice midway between experience and agency. Occupying a distinctive place in …

In most traditional accounts, to be a witness is to be physically present at an event and report
it to those who are absent. The ontological principle that authorizes testimony is the …

From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us
to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us …

'Media witnessing'designates a new configuration of mediation, representation and
experience that is involved in the transformation of our sense of historical significance. It …

While the dimensions of what it means to 'witness' are interrogated within recent scholarship
on 'media witnessing', what it means to 'bear witness' is rarely explained. Bearing witness …

In Seeing Things (Ellis, 2000, pp. 6–38), I asserted that broadcast moving images turn
modern citizens into witnesses of the events of their time. Further, I claim that this process …

This chapter focuses on the key issues that have preoccupied the scholarship examining
witnessing and mass media: the construction of authority, authenticity, and moral …

We welcome Hepp et al.'s (2015) response to our recent critique of the concept of
'Mediatization'(Deacon and Stanyer, 2014), which they also use to showcase new literature …

This article tracks the evolution of “eyewitnessing” as a journalistic key word. It argues that
three dimensions have helped establish eyewitnessing as a way to understand journalism …