By Lilie Chouliaraki
ISBN-10: 0761970398
ISBN-13: 9780761970392
ISBN-10: 0761970401
ISBN-13: 9780761970408
ISBN-10: 1847877222
ISBN-13: 9781847877222
This booklet is set the connection among the spectators in nations of the west, and the far away patient at the tv display; the patient in Somalia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, but in addition from ny and Washington DC. How can we relate to tv photos of the far-off patient? The query touches at the moral function of the media in public existence at the present time. They handle the difficulty of no matter if the media can domesticate a disposition of deal with and engagement with the far-off different; no matter if tv can create a world public with a feeling of social responsibililty in the direction of the far-off patient.
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The ordinary spectator who acts as if she were in the scene of action (the condition of immediacy and identification) and the reflexive spectator, who acts as if she were heard and judged by others (the condition of hypermediacy and deliberation). Although both positions are as if or imaginary positions (let us not forget that pity resolves the problem of action at a distance), they nevertheless point to a crucial but neglected property of mediation. This is that the structure of address by means of which television ‘speaks’ to spectators not only moralizes them by managing distance and proximity vis-à-vis the suffering but it also moralizes the spectators by managing personal feeling and public opinion.
Unlike the dissemination model, which ignores the semantic content of mediation, this analytical perspective asks what the spectacle of suffering is about and how it makes us feel. Does the spectacle of suffering appear factual and urgent or fictional and irrelevant to spectators? Does the spectacle engage spectators in empathy or indignation with what they are watching or does it leave no trace in their memories? qxd 40 3/7/2006 2:28 PM Page 40 THE SPECTATORSHIP OF SUFFERING These questions draw attention to how suffering becomes an immediate reality for spectators and acknowledge that content is crucial for the analysis of power in mediation.
The most radical version of pessimism on the role of the media in social life is Baudrillard’s thesis, in which the media are considered to be responsible for the disappearance of the real into a simulacrum – a mirror image of reality that is nowadays the only authentic reality for spectators. This position entails a nihilism that leaves no space for us to consider the ethical content of mediation, let alone the demand for public action that the television spectacle of suffering may provoke. From mild defeatism to nihilism, from the belief that only an ethics of proximity is possible to the belief that no system of ethics is possible at all, the pessimistic narrative on the ethical role of television is undercut by suspicion.
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