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

Contributor(s): Publication details: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781841504209 (pbk.) :
  • 1841504203 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN4781 .A43 2011
Contents:
Looking back : ethics and aesthetics of non-professional photography / Karin Becker -- Amateur photography in wartime : early histories / Stuart Allan -- The eyewitness in the age of digital transformation / Mette Mortensen -- Amateur images and journalistic authority / Helle Sjøvaag -- Transparency and trustworthiness : strategies for incorporating amateur photography into news discourse / Mervi Pantti and Kari Andén-Papadopoulos -- Pans and zooms : the quality of amateur video covering a breaking news story / Ray Niekamp -- "You will die next" : killer images and the circulation of moral hierarchy / Johanna Sumiala -- From Columbine to Kauhajoki : amateur video as acts of terror / Marguerite Moritz -- Visual blowback : soldier photography and the war in Iraq / Liam Kennedy -- In amateurs we trust : readers assessing non-professional news photographs / Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppänen -- "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.
Summary: 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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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection PN 4781 .A43 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5086284

Includes bibliographical references.

Looking back : ethics and aesthetics of non-professional photography / Karin Becker -- Amateur photography in wartime : early histories / Stuart Allan -- The eyewitness in the age of digital transformation / Mette Mortensen -- Amateur images and journalistic authority / Helle Sjøvaag -- Transparency and trustworthiness : strategies for incorporating amateur photography into news discourse / Mervi Pantti and Kari Andén-Papadopoulos -- Pans and zooms : the quality of amateur video covering a breaking news story / Ray Niekamp -- "You will die next" : killer images and the circulation of moral hierarchy / Johanna Sumiala -- From Columbine to Kauhajoki : amateur video as acts of terror / Marguerite Moritz -- Visual blowback : soldier photography and the war in Iraq / Liam Kennedy -- In amateurs we trust : readers assessing non-professional news photographs / Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppänen -- "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.

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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