Amateur Images and Global News

Mervi Pantti author Kari Andén-Papadopoulos author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Intellect

Published:15th Jan '12

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Amateur Images and Global News cover

Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events as they develop, and news organizations around the world increasingly depend on these amateur images for their coverage of unfolding events. However, with globalization facilitating wider circulation, critics have expressed strong concern over exactitude and objectivity. The first book on this topic, Amateur Images and Global News considers at length the ethical and professional issues that arise with the use of amateur images in the mainstream news media—as well as their role in producing knowledge and framing meanings of disasters in global and national contexts.

'The book is well structured, the language well edited, and the ideas succinctly developed and appropriate for journalism scholars and professors, as well as for researchers involved in the journalistic enquiry ... an entertaining read.' – Emmanuel Ngwainmbi for International Journal of Communication Review

ISBN: 9781841504209

Dimensions: 229mm x 178mm x 12mm

Weight: 358g

213 pages