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The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality, their reactions are usually dictated by geopolitical 'noise', pre-conceived ideas of worth and the media attention-spans of individual elected leaders. Utilising a wide-ranging quantitative analysis of media reporting across the globe, Patrick argues that an over-reliance on the Holocaust as the framing device we use to try and come to terms with such horrors can lead to slow responses, misinterpretation and category errors - in both Rwanda and Bosnia, much energy was expended trying to ascertain whether these regions qualified for 'genocide' status. Reporting Genocide demonstrates how such tragedies are reduced to stereotypes in the media, which can over-simplify the situation on the ground and can lead to inadequate responses from governments. Patrick seeks to address how responses to genocides can be improved. This will be essential reading for policy makers and for scholars of genocide and the media. Book jacket.

Genocide --- Genocide in mass media. --- Génocide --- Press coverage. --- Dans les médias.

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Cet essai d'envergure retrace l'histoire de vingt années d'images ayant pour origine le génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda. De nombreux qualificatifs, réducteurs et contradictoires, servent à définir les cent jours durant lesquels plus de 800 000 Tutsi furent assassinés, d'avril à juillet 1994 : « génocide sans images », « génocide en direct », « premier génocide télévisé »... Au lendemain d'une couverture controversée, les médias furent montrés du doigt pour n'avoir pas su dresser la chronique d'un “événement annoncé” ou, au contraire, pour avoir privilégié l'information spectacle aux dépens de la dénonciation politique. Le cinéma comme la photographie se sont chargés, dans une remarquable précocité, de déconstruire la logique des mass-médias en lui opposant les preuves effectives de l'horreur, en traquant ses traces dans les corps et dans les voix des victimes ou de leurs tortionnaires. À travers le prisme de l'histoire rwandaise se sont ainsi rejoués les grands débats sur l'image nés du paradigme de la Shoah et de la crise du photojournalisme, forgeant au fil des représentations les pourtours d'un malaise à la fois moral, politique et esthétique. Afin d'en sonder la nature, l'auteur a choisi de remonter dans un premier temps le fil des images, au plus près des trajectoires des photographes et des cameramen qui furent, en 1994, les témoins parfois incrédules de ce « génocide de proximité ». Dans un second temps, il arpente dans toute sa largeur un corpus d'œuvres à l'articulation du cinéma et de la photographie, où se révèlent les enjeux sensibles de la mémoire post-génocide. Riche de nombreux témoignages, ce livre polyphonique mêle de manière inédite approche historienne et réflexions théoriques sur les pouvoirs et les limites de la représentation.

Genocide --- Genocide in mass media --- Genocide in motion pictures --- Génocide --- Génocide dans les médias --- Génocide au cinéma --- Rwanda --- History --- Histoire --- Génocide des Tutsi (1994) --- Art et histoire --- Guerre --- Photographies --- Dans les médias --- Dans l'art --- Génocide --- Génocide dans les médias --- Génocide au cinéma --- Sociologie --- Sociologie de la communication --- Mass media --- Média --- Communication --- Conflit --- Art et histoire. --- Photographies. --- Dans les médias. --- Dans l'art.

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"Twenty-five years after the Rwanda genocide, there is still much to learn about the role the media played as similar tragedies continue to unfold today. When human beings are at their worst -- as they most certainly were in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide-- Failed to fully grasp and communicate the genocide, but mostly overlooked the war crimes committed during the genocide and in its aftermath by the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The global media landscape has been transformed since Rwanda. We are now saturated with social media, generated as often as not by non-journalists. Mobile phones are everywhere. And in many quarters, the traditional news media business model continues to recede. Against that backdrop, it is more important than ever to examine the nexus between media and mass atrocity. The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other contexts across the developing world. It also looks at the aftermath of the genocide: the shifting narrative of the genocide itself, the evolving debate overthe role and impact of hate media in Rwanda, the challenge of digitizing archival records of the genocide, and the fostering of free and independent media in atrocity's wake. The volume also probes how journalists themselves confront mass atrocity and examines the preventive function of media through the use of advanced digital technology as well as radio programming in the Lake Chad Basin and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Media and Mass Atrocity questions what the lessons of Rwanda mean now, in an age of communications so dramatically influenced by social media and the relative decline of traditional news media."-- The news media not only The world needs the institutions of journalism and the media to be at their best. Sadly, in Rwanda, the media fell short. Media and Mass Atrocity revisits the case of Rwanda, but also examines how the nexus between media and mass atrocity has been shaped by the dramatic rise of social media. It has been twenty-five years since Rwanda slid into the abyss. The killings happened in broad daylight, but many of us turned away. A quarter century later, there is still much to learn about the relationship between the media and genocide, an issue laid bare by the Rwanda tragedy. Media and Mass Atrocity revisits the debate over the role of traditional news media in Rwanda, where, confronted by the horrors taking place, international news media, for the most part, turned away, and at times muddled the story when they did pay attention. Hate-media outlets in Rwanda played a role in laying the groundwork for genocide, and then actively encouraged the extermination campaign.

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