Ubiquitous witnesses: who creates the evidence and the live(d) experience of human rights violations?

Gregory, Sam

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2015.1070891

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“…Indeed, mainstream media have themselves become dependent on-and proactive in seeking outsuch products of "citizen journalism" (Wall, 2015) or "citizen witnessing" (Gregory, 2015) for distribution, thus further amplifying these products' ability to reach new audiences. The possible moral consequences of this are, it would seem, a massive enhancement of encounters with others that engender empathy and solidarity, leading to new bottom-up forms of moral and political empowerment.…”

Section: Moral Concern and The Mediated Suffering Of Othersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagine All the People: Negotiating and Mediating Moral Concern through Intergroup Encounters

Maoz

Frosh

2020

Negotiation Conflict Man Res

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Intergroup encounters can often become difficult conversations in which power relations and disagreements are perpetuated and re‐enacted through the interaction and communication between the participating groups. Thus, especially in asymmetric settings, moral inclusion and moral responsibility toward members of other groups are crucial to dialogue, conflict resolution, and reconciliation. Yet it is exactly the circumstances of asymmetry—involving threat and dehumanization—that pose barriers to the elicitation and sustaining of moral concern. Drawing on and integrating two separate research traditions—the psychology of intergroup conflict, dialogue and peace building, and communication research on “mediated suffering”—this article discusses perceptions, representations, and emotions that underlie recognition of and empathy toward the suffering of others with the aim of increasing our understanding of when and how we can be brought—through mediated and unmediated dialogues and encounters—to care about the suffering of others.

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Section: Moral Concern and The Mediated Suffering Of Othersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagine All the People: Negotiating and Mediating Moral Concern through Intergroup Encounters

Maoz

Frosh

2020

Negotiation Conflict Man Res

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“…Chouliaraki defines 'digital witnessing' as 'the moral engagement with distant suffering through mobile media, by means of recording, uploading and sharing' (2015a, 2015b), arguing this can raise questions about non-professional content as well as challenging the centrality of established professionals and organisations. The proliferation of devices capable of producing and distributing online content is said to enable 'distant witnessing' (Gregory, 2015;Martini, 2018), 'connective witnessing' (Mortensen, 2015), 'citizen witnessing' (Allan, 2013), and 'civilian witnessing' (McPherson, 2012). These represent a shift from the singular experiences of individuals which are surfaced through textual practices, towards witnessing as the configuration of relations between events, producers, consumers, content and technologies.…”

Section: Varieties Of Witnessingmentioning

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Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project

Gray

2019

Information, Communication & Society

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The concept of witnessing has been used to explore the construction of evidence and experience in settings of law, religion, atrocity, media, history and science. Recent research has examined how digital technologies may multiply the involvement of remote, non-present and unanticipated actors in the witnessing of events. This paper examines what digital data practices at Amnesty International's Decoders initiative can add to the understanding of witnessing. It introduces the notion of 'data witnessing' with reference to four projects on (i) witnessing historical abuses with structured data from digitised documents; (ii) witnessing the destruction of villages with satellite imagery and machine learning; (iii) witnessing environmental injustice with company reports and photographs; and (iv) witnessing online abuse through the classification of Twitter data. These projects illustrate the configuration of experimental apparatuses for witnessing injustices with data. In contrast to accounts which emphasise the presence of an individual human witness at the scene, Amnesty's data practices are conspicuously collective and distributed, rendering the systemic scale of injustices at a distance, across space and time. Such practices may contribute to research on both (new) media witnessing and data politics, suggesting ways in which care, concern and solidarity may be constructed, structured, extended and delimited by means of digital data.

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“…When discussed in relation to its political dimension, new media witnessing is still generally regarded as a positive form of emancipation from the mass media construction of reality. In other words, the political potential of networked video-mediated communication is presented in relation to its strategic use by activist groups which embrace grassroots video production for documentation and counter-surveillance purposes (Farrell and Allan, 2015; Gregory, 2015). In these cases, the technology-enhanced mediability of reality is strategically employed by media activists to support collective action and expose repression (Andén-Papadopoulos, 2014; Lo, 2016).…”

Section: Online Political Engagement and The Emergence Of Real-time Dmentioning

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Online distant witnessing and live-streaming activism: Emerging differences in the activation of networked publics

Martini

2018

New Media & Society

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Since its formal approval, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project raised public concern about environmental sustainability and security. Thanks to the systematic use of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs), the nonviolent resistance organized by the Sioux tribes of Standing Rock Reservation to oppose the planned construction rapidly attracted public attention. In view of their strategic use of online video-sharing for documentation and counter-surveillance purposes, this study aims at describing how diverse modes of user activity are triggered by two different forms of distant witnessing: online video and live streaming. To this aim, this study analyzes the user activity which took place on the Digital Smoke Signals Facebook page, one of the most widely followed information outlets of the NO DAPL movement. Findings suggest that online video and live streaming trigger different forms of connective activity. The highlighted differences reflect the ways in which synchronous and asynchronous forms of online audio-visual communication impact users’ everyday life.

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Ubiquitous witnesses: who creates the evidence and the live(d) experience of human rights violations?

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Imagine All the People: Negotiating and Mediating Moral Concern through Intergroup Encounters

Imagine All the People: Negotiating and Mediating Moral Concern through Intergroup Encounters

Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project

Online distant witnessing and live-streaming activism: Emerging differences in the activation of networked publics

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