Od empatii do ironii. Media i ich odbiorcy wobec tragedii wojny w XXI wieku
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media image, media audience, 21st Century, empathy, compassion, ironyAbstract
FROM EMPATHY TO IRONY. MEDIA AND ITS AUDIENCE TOWARDS THE TRAGEDY OF THE WAR IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The aim of the article is to present the selected media concepts related to the narratives on wars and armed conflicts, with particular emphasis on media representations affecting recipients attitudes – including their emotional relations – towards the modern humane theatrum mundi, in which key elements are the tragedy of victims, responsibility (or impunity) of persecutors and actions of ‘benefactors’, i.e. individual or collective heroes of a humanitarian imaginarium at the beginning of the 21st century. The author of the article discusses selected concepts such as gatekeeping, agenda setting and framing in order to explain the media functioning in the process of reporting the tragedies. Referring to essential works – among others – by L. Boltanski, L. Chouliaraki, S. D. Moeller, A. Hoskins and B. O’Loughlin – the author outlines the evolution of the attitudes of journalists and their audience from the ‘empathic paradigm of public engagement through the compassion fatigue to the ironic viewer of the postmodern era.
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