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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Media Witnessing? Why Now? PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA WITNESSING Witnessing: An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces J.D.Peters Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers P.Frosh Mundane Witness J.Ellis Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics and Current Appearances G.Thomas Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media M.Blondheim& T.Liebes PART II: PERFORMANCES OF MEDIA WITNESSING Witnessing as a Field T.Ashuri and A.Pinchevski From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labour and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing C.Rentschler Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation J.Leach Witnesses or Bystanders: What Models are Appropriate in Understanding the Media Act of Witnessing? Witnessing Trauma on Film R.Brand Index
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