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

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 …

As witnessing is becoming a key issue in communications and media studies, its
understanding is proving more complicated and even controversial. In what follows, we …

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 …

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

This paper explores how news organizations visualize crises in a digital media ecology
shaped by citizen witnessing and widespread image circulation on social media …

'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 is infused in ethical and legal discourses that operate within the matrix of
knowledge, responsibility, and action. Through an analysis of the non-governmental …

The previous essay was first written for a conference on media events held at the University
of Westminster in June 2000 and then published in Media, Culture and Society. Some of it …

Radio and television (audiovisual mass communication) at the beginning of the twenty-first
century broadcast multiple forms of witnessing, confession, and testimony in a variety of …