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Digital witnessing in conflict zones: the politics of remediation

Chouliaraki, Lilie (2015) Digital witnessing in conflict zones: the politics of remediation. Information, Communication & Society, 18 (11). 1362 - 1377. ISSN 1369-118X

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Identification Number: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1070890

Abstract

Digital witnessing, our engagement with death through local participants’ own recordings of the conflict zone, introduces a new kind of death spectacle in the West: mediatized death [Mortensen, M. (2015). Journalism and eyewitness images. London: Routledge.]. Whilst, like past spectacles, this one also invites its publics to witness death as a moral event that requires a response, mediatized death differs from past spectacles, in that it injects into the practice of witnessing an accentuated sense of doubt: how do we know this is authentic? And, what should we feel towards it? This is because, given the multiple actors filming in conflict zones, digital witnessing breaks with the professional monopoly of the journalist and becomes a complex site of struggle where competing spectacles of death, each with their own interest, vie for visibility. How the status of the death spectacle and our potential engagement with it change under the weight of this new epistemic instability is the focus of this article.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rics20
Additional Information: © 2015 Taylor & Francis
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited: 08 Sep 2015 14:06
Last Modified: 03 Oct 2024 03:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/63453

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