Paperback, 240 pages
English language
Published June 23, 2006 by Sage Publications Ltd.
The Spectatorship of Suffering
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This book is about the relationship between the spectators in countries of the west, and the distant sufferer on the television screen; the sufferer in Somalia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, but also from New York and Washington DC. How do we relate to television images of the distant sufferer? This question touches on the ethical role of the media in public life today. It addresses the issue of whether the media can cultivate a disposition of care for and engagement with the far away other; whether television can create a global public with a sense of social responsibility towards the distant sufferer.
Subjects
- Cultural studies
- Media Studies
- Social Science
- Sociology
- Media Studies - Electronic Media
- Television - General
- Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
- Poverty
- Moral and ethical aspects
- Suffering