By Shani Orgad
This ebook is a transparent, systematic, unique and full of life account of the way media representations form the best way we see our and others’ lives in a world age. It offers in-depth research of a number foreign media representations of catastrophe, warfare, clash, migration and celebration.
The booklet explores how photos, tales and voices, on tv, the web, and in ads and newspapers, invite us to relocate to far-off contexts, and to narrate to those that are distant from our day-by-day lives, through constructing ‘mediated intimacy’ and concentrating on the self. It additionally explores how those representations form our self-narratives.
Orgad examines 5 websites of media illustration – the opposite, the kingdom, attainable lives, the area and the self. She argues that representations can and will give a contribution to fostering extra ambivalence and complexity in how we expect and suppose concerning the global, our position in it and our relation to far-away others.
Media Representations and the worldwide Imagination might be of specific curiosity to scholars and students of media and cultural reports, in addition to sociology, politics, diplomacy, improvement reviews and migration reviews.
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And (3) why do media representations matter? The answers to these questions vary and rest on diverse and conflicting epistemological, theoretical and analytical premises. The point is not to argue that one account is better or more ‘truthful’ than another, nor to 46 suggest that we should somehow integrate all approaches and reconcile the tensions that are evoked by their juxtaposition. Rather, the purpose is to provide an account of the central ideas and claims that inform the research on media representations on which this book draws.
Schlesinger (1987 [1978]) shows that news professionals have a deep-seated belief in their capacity to achieve impartiality and reflect the truth, a belief informed by the pluralist idea that one can present different points of view and achieve an accurate 49 (reflective) representation of the range of voices and opinions in society. The media landscape has changed dramatically since Schlesinger’s late 1970s study, and both media consumers and producers are increasingly aware of the problematic nature of the notion of representation as reflection.
A notion of the media as reflecting reality is perpetuated in popular discourse, policy and political debate. The media themselves repeatedly endorse a reflectionist claim, as manifest, for example, in the title of the UK newspaper Daily Mirror, or in news outlets’ slogans that describe their commitment to current readers – providing ‘the whole picture’ (1986 Guardian campaign),1 or ‘hunting down the news and beating the truth out of it’ (UK Channel 4’s 10 O’clock News campaign, February 2011).