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Media, Mobilization, and Human Rights: Mediating Suffering

London; New York: Zed Books (2012), viii, 251 pp.

Contains illustrations, index

Signature commbox: 10-Politics-E 2012

1 Humanitarian intervention in the 1990s: cultural remembrance and the reading of Somalia as Vietnam / David Kieran
2 Framing a rights ethos: artistic media and the dream of a culture without borders / Michael Galchinsky
3 How editors choose which human rights news to cover: a case study of Mexican newspapers / Ella McPherson
4 Framing strategies for economic and social rights in the United States / Dan Chong
5 'Fresh, wet tears': shock media and human rights awareness campaigns / Tristan Anne Borer
6 Celebrity diplomats as mobilizers? Celebrities and activism in a hypermediated time / Joseph F. Turcotte
7 Amplifying individual impact: social media's emerging role in activism / Sarah Kessler
8 The spectacle of suffering and humanitarian intervention in Somalia / Joel R. Pruce