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http://www.google.com The concern with the role of media in cultivating cosmopolitan sensibilities among audiences inevitably raises questions about the textual quality of mediation and the moral power of representation: what sense of responsibility and care do media stories cultivate vis-a-vis far-away others? Can the spectacles of suffering, most common on our home screens, go beyond wishful thinking and lead to forms of public action towards these distant others?
Lilie Chouliaraki (Mon,) studied this question.