<p><em>'The book is well structured, the language well edited, and the ideas succinctly developed and appropriate for journalism scholars and professors, as well as for researchers involved in the journalistic enquiry ... an entertaining read.'</em> – Emmanuel Ngwainmbi for International Journal of Communication Review</p>

Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events as they develop, and news organizations around the world increasingly depend on these amateur images for their coverage of unfolding events. However, with globalization facilitating wider circulation, critics have expressed strong concern over exactitude and objectivity. The first book on this topic, Amateur Images and Global News considers at length the ethical and professional issues that arise with the use of amateur images in the mainstream news media—as well as their role in producing knowledge and framing meanings of disasters in global and national contexts.

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Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events, and news organizations around the world depend on these images for their coverage of unfolding events. This book considers the ethical and professional issues that arise with the use of amateur images in the mainstream news media.

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Introduction  – Kari Andén-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti   PART I: HISTORIES    Chapter 1: Looking Back: Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-Professional Photography – Karin Becker   Chapter 2: Amateur Photography in Wartime: Early Histories – Stuart Allan   Chapter 3: The Eyewitness in the Age of Digital Transformation – Mette Mortensen   PART II: PRACTICES   Chapter 4: Amateur Images and Journalistic Authority – Helle Sjøvaag   Chapter 5: Transparency and Trustworthiness: Strategies for Incorporating Amateur Photography into News Discourse – Mervi Pantti and Kari Andén-Papadopoulos   Chapter 6: Pans and Zooms: The Quality of Amateur Video Covering a Breaking News Story – Ray Niekamp   Chapter 7: ‘You Will Die Next’: Killer Images and the Circulation of Moral Hierarchy – Johanna Sumiala   Chapter 8: From Columbine to Kauhajoki: Amateur Videos as Acts of Terror – Marguerite Moritz   PART III: CIRCULATIONS   Chapter 9: Visual Blowback: Soldier Photography and the War in Iraq – Liam Kennedy   Chapter 10: In Amateurs We Trust: Readers Assessing Non-Professional News Photographs – Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppänen   Chapter 11: ‘More Real and Less Packaged’: Audience Discourses on Amateur News Content and Their Effects on Journalism Practice – Andy Williams, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Claire Wardle
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781841504209
Publisert
2012-01-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Intellect Books
Vekt
358 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
213

Biographical note

Kari Andén-Papadopoulos is associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Media, and Communication at Stockholm University.

Mervi Pantti is a lecturer and programme director of the Media and Global Communication Master's Program at the Social University of Helsinki.