The Eyewitness Texture of Conflict: Contributions of Amateur Videos in News Coverage of the Arab Spring

Our paper uses the events of the Arab Spring to examine amateur videos as a discourse of conflict produced by untrained and unpaid individuals, often at great personal risk, and which is taken up by, and incorporated into, news outcomes by professional news networks. The different semiotic elements...

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Main Authors: Michael Lithgow, Michèle Martin
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FU Berlin, University of Erfurt 2018-06-01
Series:Global Media Journal: German Edition
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Online Access:https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00041210/GMJ15_Lithgow_Martin.pdf