The Ironic Spectator(English, Electronic book text, Chouliaraki Lilie)

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The Ironic Spectator(English, Electronic book text, Chouliaraki Lilie) is written by Chouliaraki Lilie and published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0745664334 (ISBN 10) and 9780745664330 (ISBN 13).

WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They tell us something about the ways in which we imagine the world outside ourselves. By showing historical change in Amnesty International and Oxfam appeals, in the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, in the advocacy of Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie as well as in earthquake news on the BBC, this far-reaching book shows how solidarity has today come to be not about conviction but choice, not vision but lifestyle, not others but ourselves - turning us into the ironic spectators of other people's suffering.