Media Representation and the Global Imagination by Shani Orgad - 9780745643793

Media Representation and the Global ImaginationAuthor(s): Shani Orgad\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745643793, 978-0745643793\nSynopsis\nThis book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing mediated intimacy and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations ca.