The Spectatorship of Suffering

`The work is on an important topic that has been oft debated but rarely systematically studied - the political, cultural, and moral effects of distant news coverage of suffering. [The book] is extremely well steeped in the relevant literature, including semiotics, discourse analysis, media and social theory and makes a fresh methodological contribution by looking at the codes and formats of news about suffering. It has a fresh vision and answer to some of the stickiest moral and media problems of our time- and deserves to find its place among important books about the moral aspects of media and society in our times'' - John D Peters, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor, University of Iowa

`Lilie Chouliaraki grounds her sophisticated arguments in meticulous research. The result is a work of important scholarship that might even make us think about the world and its mediation in profoundly new ways''- Roger Silverstone, Professor of Media and Commun