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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_9899
dc.contributor.author	Al-Ghazzi Omar
dc.contributor.author	Chouliaraki Lilie
dc.title	Citizen media as Flesh Witnessing: Embodied Testimonies of War in Western News Journalism
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter critiques the privileging of verification in the ways user-generated content is incorporated in western reporting of global South conflicts. We argue that the exclusive concern with truth regimes takes for granted and profits off the precarious existence of those who provide western news with the material for visual news story-telling. We introduce a view of citizen media as flesh witnessing, that is as embodied and mobile testimonies of vulnerable others that, enabled by mobile phones, circulate in global news environments as appeals to attention and action. We offer an analysis of the narrative strategies by which flesh witnessing is imbued with truth-telling authority. These are: meta-discursive, where the truth status of citizen media constitutes the newsworthiness of the story itself, curated, where its truth status is awarded through digital curation of personalised testimonies; and non-narrative, where the truth of citizen media is presented as the open-ended process of shared fact-checking.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-26
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-678-7/citizen-media-as-flesh-witnessing-embodied-testimo/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/001
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-678-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-677-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Citizen media
dc.subject	Conflict news
dc.subject	Flesh witnessing
dc.subject	Syria war
dc.subject	User-generated content

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Citizen media as Flesh Witnessing: Embodied Testimonies of War in Western News Journalism

Lilie Chouliaraki London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Omar Al-Ghazzi London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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abstract

This chapter critiques the privileging of verification in the ways user-generated content is incorporated in western reporting of global South conflicts. We argue that the exclusive concern with truth regimes takes for granted and profits off the precarious existence of those who provide western news with the material for visual news story-telling. We introduce a view of citizen media as flesh witnessing, that is as embodied and mobile testimonies of vulnerable others that, enabled by mobile phones, circulate in global news environments as appeals to attention and action. We offer an analysis of the narrative strategies by which flesh witnessing is imbued with truth-telling authority. These are: meta-discursive, where the truth status of citizen media constitutes the newsworthiness of the story itself, curated, where its truth status is awarded through digital curation of personalised testimonies; and non-narrative, where the truth of citizen media is presented as the open-ended process of shared fact-checking.

Pubblicato

26 Gennaio 2023

Accettato

21 Ottobre 2022

Presentato

13 Luglio 2022

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-678-7

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-677-0

Keywords: User-generated content • Citizen media • Syria war • Flesh witnessing • Conflict news

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/001

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