Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), 242 pp.
ISBN 978-1-349-36236-3 (pbk); 978-0-230-23576-2 (ebook)
"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 through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader implications of 'media witnessing'." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Why Media Witnessing? Why Now? / Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski, 1
PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA WITNESSING
1 Witnessing / John Durham Peters, 23
An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces / John Durham Peters, 42
2 Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers / Paul Frosh, 49
3 Mundane Witness / John Ellis, 73
4 Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics, and Current Appearances / Günter Thomas, 89
5 Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media / Menahem Blondheim and Tamar Liebes, 112
PART II: PERFORMANCES OF MEDIA WITNESSING
6 Witnessing as a Field / Tamar Ashuri and Amit Pinchevski, 133
7 From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labor and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing / Carrie Rentschler, 158
8 Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation / Joan Leach, 182
9 Witnessing Trauma on Film / Roy Brand, 198
PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA WITNESSING
1 Witnessing / John Durham Peters, 23
An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces / John Durham Peters, 42
2 Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers / Paul Frosh, 49
3 Mundane Witness / John Ellis, 73
4 Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics, and Current Appearances / Günter Thomas, 89
5 Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media / Menahem Blondheim and Tamar Liebes, 112
PART II: PERFORMANCES OF MEDIA WITNESSING
6 Witnessing as a Field / Tamar Ashuri and Amit Pinchevski, 133
7 From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labor and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing / Carrie Rentschler, 158
8 Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation / Joan Leach, 182
9 Witnessing Trauma on Film / Roy Brand, 198
