Beskrivning
Beskrivning
This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of howmedia representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in aglobal age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of internationalmedia representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration andcelebration.The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, theInternet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate todistant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our dailylives, by developing ’mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. Italso explores how these representations shape our self-narratives.Orgad examines five sites of media representation — the other, thenation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues thatrepresentations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalenceand complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in itand our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imaginationwill be ofparticular interest to students and scholars of media and culturalstudies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations,development studies and migration studies.(Bookdata)
