Bearing Witness: Citizen Journalism and Human Rights Issues

Autor/inn/en	Allan, Stuart; Sonwalkar, Prasun; Carter, Cynthia
Titel	Bearing Witness: Citizen Journalism and Human Rights Issues
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 5 (2007) 3, S.373-389 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
Schlagwörter	Civil Rights; News Reporting; Internet; Citizen Role; Journalism; Case Studies; Natural Disasters; Conflict; Literacy; Electronic Publishing; Web Sites; Foreign Countries; Asia; Gaza Strip; India; Israel; Palestine; West Bank + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; News report; Reportage; Bürgerinitiative; Journalistik; Journalismus; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Konflikt; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Elektronisches Publizieren; Web-Design; Ausland; Asien; Gaza-Streifen; Indien; Palästina; Westjordanland
Abstract	This article assesses the potential of online news reporting to create discursive spaces for emphatic engagement--of bearing witness--at a distance, especially where human rights violations are concerned. Taking as its focus the emergent forms and practices of citizen journalism, it examines the spontaneous actions of ordinary people compelled to adopt the role of news reporter in order to bear witness to human suffering. Specifically, findings derived from three case studies of citizen journalism are presented: 1) the 2004 South Asian Tsunami; 2) human rights abuses in India's north-east region; and 3) the Palestinian Crisis in the Occupied Territories. In each instance, it is argued, citizen journalism engendered new approaches to eyewitness reporting, a process shown to have important implications for challenging familiar "us and them" dichotomies in news reports. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10