Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses
and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual …

Description: Second edition.| Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.| Series:
Routledge media and cultural studies companions| Includes bibliographical references and …

This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing
both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful …

How do the dead live among us today? Approaching death from the perspective of media
and communication studies, anthropology, and sociology, this book explains how the all …

Modern black citizen journalists have embraced the mobile phone as their storytelling tool of
choice to produce paradigm-shifting displays of raw reportage that challenge long-standing …

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 …

Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are
all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show distinctly different films. What …

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

This article explores the aesthetic genealogy of the cue card confession social media trope,
where producers create a self-portrait or vlog featuring handwritten cards to relate an …

Drawing on the anthropology of moralities, the phronetic turn in media ethics scholarship,
and audience research in media studies, this article explores how media audiences in the …