Amateur Images and Global News

Distributed for Intellect Ltd
213 pages
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7 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2011
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Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
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
Contributors
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
Contributors
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