Introduction: Why media witnessing? Why now?

Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-19

  Frosh, Paul ^a   Pinchevski, Amit ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 85006184151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230235762     Document Type: Editorial

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