Amateur images and global news / edited by Kari Andén-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti.

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TextPublication details: Bristol, U.K. : Intellect Books, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781841506005
1841506001

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Amateur images and global news.DDC classification:

070.43

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PN4781 .A43 2011eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Histories. Ch. 1. Looking back : ethics and aesthetics of non-professional photography -- Ch. 2. Amateur photography in wartime : early histories -- Ch. 3. The eyewitness in the age of digital transformation. pt. 2. Practices. Ch. 4. Amateur images and journalistic authority -- Ch. 5. Transparency and trustworthiness : strategies for incorporating amateur photography into news discourse -- Ch. 6. Pans and zooms : the quality of amateur video covering a breaking news story. -- Ch. 7. "You will die next" : killer images and the circulation of a moral hierarchy -- Ch. 8. From Columbine to Kauhajoki : amateur videos as acts of terror. pt. 3. Circulations. Ch. 9. Visual blowback : soldier photography and the war in Iraq -- Ch. 10. In amateurs we trust : readers assessing non-professional news photographs -- Ch. 11. "More real and less packaged" : audience discourses on amateur news content and their effects on journalism practice.

Summary: This book considers 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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This book considers 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.