Orgad Media Representation and the Global Imagination

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8085-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PGMC - Polity Global Media and Communication series

This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account ofhow media representations shape the way we see our andothers' lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysisof a range of international media representations of disaster, war,conflict, migration and celebration.
The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television,the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us torelocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who areremote from our daily lives, by developing 'mediatedintimacy' and focusing on the self. It also explores howthese representations shape our self-narratives.
Orgad examines five sites of media representation - theother, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. Sheargues that representations can and should contribute to fosteringmore ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about theworld, our place in it and our relation to far-away others.
Media Representations and the Global Imagination will beof particular interest to students and scholars of media andcultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, internationalrelations, development studies and migration studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orgad, Shani

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Detailed Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Media representation and the global imagination: A framework
2 Imagining others: Representations of natural disasters
3 Imagining ourselves: Representations of the nation
4 Imagining possible lives: Representations of migration
5 Imagining the world: Representations of New Year celebrations
6 Imagining the self
7 Conclusion: Nothing gets you closer revisited
Bibliography
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Shani Orgad is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science.