Description
Book SynopsisModern 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.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Kari Andén-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti
PART I: HISTORIES Chapter 1: Looking Back: Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-Professional Photography – Karin Becker Chapter 2: Amateur Photography in Wartime: Early Histories – Stuart Allan Chapter 3: The Eyewitness in the Age of Digital Transformation – Mette Mortensen
PART II: PRACTICES Chapter 4: Amateur Images and Journalistic Authority – Helle Sjøvaag Chapter 5: Transparency and Trustworthiness: Strategies for Incorporating Amateur Photography into News Discourse – Mervi Pantti and Kari Andén-Papadopoulos Chapter 6: Pans and Zooms: The Quality of Amateur Video Covering a Breaking News Story – Ray Niekamp Chapter 7: ‘You Will Die Next’: Killer Images and the Circulation of Moral Hierarchy – Johanna Sumiala Chapter 8: From Columbine to Kauhajoki: Amateur Videos as Acts of Terror – Marguerite Moritz
PART III: CIRCULATIONS Chapter 9: Visual Blowback: Soldier Photography and the War in Iraq – Liam Kennedy Chapter 10: In Amateurs We Trust: Readers Assessing Non-Professional News Photographs – Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppänen Chapter 11: ‘More Real and Less Packaged’: Audience Discourses on Amateur News Content and Their Effects on Journalism Practice – Andy Williams, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Claire Wardle
