Telling presences: Witnessing, mass media, and the imagined lives of strangers

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-284

  Frosh, Paul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Audience Reception; Civil Inattention; Imagination; Morality; Testimony

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750213460     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393180600933097     Document Type: Review

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