Seeing justice: witnessing, crime, and punishment in visual media

Playing with Fire -- Images of Discipline -- Walks of Shame -- Spectacular Trials -- What Picture Would They Use? -- What's So Special About Video? -- Filming Police -- Police and Image Maintenance -- Everyday Racism and Rudeness -- Playing (Safely) With Fire.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bock, Mary Angela (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
Mass Media > Social aspects > United States
Social Justice > United States
Photojournalism > Social aspects > United States
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
Visual sociology > United States
Massenmedien
Visuelle Medien
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Verbrechen
Strafe
Diskursanalyse
Interview
Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Usa
USA > Visuelle Medien > Massenmedien > Verbrechen > Strafrecht
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 177555886X
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Summary:Playing with Fire -- Images of Discipline -- Walks of Shame -- Spectacular Trials -- What Picture Would They Use? -- What's So Special About Video? -- Filming Police -- Police and Image Maintenance -- Everyday Racism and Rudeness -- Playing (Safely) With Fire.
"Seeing Justice examines the way criminal justice in the U.S. is presented in visual media by focusing on the grounded practices of visual journalists in relationship with law enforcement. The book extends the concept of embodied gatekeeping, the corporeal and discursive practices connected to controlling visual media production and the complex ways social actors struggle over the construction of visual messages. Based on research that includes participant observation, extended interviews and critical discourse analysis, the book provides a detailed examination of the way these practices shape media constructions and the way digitization is altering the relationships between media, consumers, and the criminal justice system. The project looks at contemporary cases that made the headlines through a theoretical lens based on the work of Michel Foucault, Walter Fisher, Stuart Hall, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Nick Couldry and Roland Barthes. Its cases reveal the way powerful interests are able to shape representations of justice in ways that serve their purposes, occasionally at the expense of marginalized groups. Based on cases ranging from the last public hanging in the U.S. to the proliferation of "Karen-shaming" videos, this monograph offers three observations. First: visual journalism's physicality increases its reliance on those in power, making it easy for officials in the criminal justice system to shape its image. Second: image indexicality, even while it is subject to narrative negation, remains an essential affordance in the public sphere. Finally, participation in this visual public sphere must be considered as an essential human capability if not a human right"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 292 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190926984
9780190926977
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190926977.001.0001