Essays about: "Jack Thornberg"

Found 1 essay containing the words Jack Thornberg.

  1. 1. Distant Suffering : A multimodal analysis of the politics of pity in news agencies’ mediation of the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Jack Thornberg; [2017]
    Keywords : distant suffering; mediation; global crisis; poststructuralism; discourse analysis; international relations; political science; communication; analytics of mediation;

    Abstract : This thesis explores of how American and British television mediated the crisis that started with the 4 April 2017 alleged chemical attack in Syria and culminated with the subsequent attack on Syria by the United States 7 April 2017. It builds upon a rich literature and focuses on the politics of pity in the mediated representation of distant suffering as set out by Luc Boltanski. READ MORE