Media representation and the global imagination

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Title:

Author:

Orgad, Shani, 1972-

ISBN:

9780745643793

9780745643809

Personal Author:

Orgad, Shani, 1972-

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Polity, 2012.

Physical Description:

xiii, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Global media and communication

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Media Representation and the Global Imagination: A Framework -- I.Premises -- What are media representations? -- What `work' do media representations do? -- Why do media representations matter? -- II.Challenges -- Desperately seeking the power of media representations -- A compartmentalized field -- Globalization and research on media representations: Mind the gaps -- III.Global Imagination -- Conclusion: Towards a Critical Study of Media Representation and the Global Imagination -- 2.Imagining Others: Representations of Natural Disasters -- Introduction -- Global Imagination and Narratives of the Other -- Imagining Distant Others in Natural Disasters -- Lisbon Earthquake, 1755 -- Representing Lisbon Earthquake -- From Quill Pen to Recording Studio - Voltaire with a Twist -- `We Are The World', 1985 - the African famine -- `We Are The World', 2010 - the Haiti earthquake -- Conclusion -- Mediated proximity and intimacy -- The individual other --

Contents note continued: Symbolic space of contestation -- 3.Imagining Ourselves: Representations of the Nation -- Introduction -- Imagining the Nation: Between Identification and Symbolic Distancing, Attachment and Estrangement -- The French riots -- Temporality, exposure and placement -- Competing frames -- Particularity and generalizability -- Invisibility and visibility of the other, what they mean for the vision of ourselves -- The Consequences of Estrangement -- Conclusion -- 4.Imagining Possible Lives: Representations of Migration -- Possible Lives: Dreams and Nightmares -- Dreams -- Nightmares -- Beyond Dreams and Nightmares: Ambivalent and Incomplete Imaginings of Possible Lives -- Conclusion -- 5.Imagining the World: Representations of New Year Celebrations -- New Year Celebrations: A Global Media Event -- International News Reporting of New Year Celebrations around the World -- The world as a space of sameness --

Contents note continued: The world as a competitive space marked by distinction -- Alternative Cartographic Consciousnesses -- CCTV Chinese New Year gala -- Gaza diary: Welcoming the New Year -- Conclusion -- 6.Imagining the Self -- Imagining the Other/Imagining the Self -- Imagining the Nation/Imagining the Self -- Imagining Possible Lives/Imagining the Self -- Imagining the World/Imagining the Self -- Identification, immersion, embodiment and navigation in space -- Uncertainty, ephemerality and spatial confusion -- Conclusion -- 7.Conclusion: Nothing Gets You Closer Revisited -- The Desire to Defeat Distance Revisited -- The value of distance -- The value of degrees of proximity and different modes of achieving it -- The value of intimacy at a distance -- The Desire to Remove the Medium Revisited -- The Desire for Completeness, Coherence and Closure Revisited.

Abstract:

Part of Polity's 'Global Media and Communication' series, this book provides a cutting edge approach to the traditional topic of media representations by putting it under a global lens.

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Identity (Psychology) and mass media.

Mass media and culture.

Mass media and globalization.

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Summary

This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others' lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration.

The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing 'mediated intimacy' and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives.

Orgad examines five sites of media representation - the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others.

Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.