Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Picador, 2003), 40.
Harmeet Kaur, “Palestinians Are Documenting the War for Millions on Social Media. Their Followers Have Come to See Them as Family,” CNN, January 19, 2024, ➝.
Imago, “Imago was the ordinary Latin word used to signify the copy or likeness of anything (“Imago ab imitatione dicta,” Festus, 112); and, as applied to copies of nature, it includes pictures, statues, busts, or any mode of artistic representation,” in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, ed. William Smith et al. (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1890).
Chiara Bottici, “Imagination, Imaginary, Imaginal: Towards a New Social Ontology?” Social Epistemology 33, no. 5 (2019): 433–41.
Lilie Chouliaraki, The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-humanitarianism (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013), 45.
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 19.
Barbie Zelizer, “CNN, the Gulf War, and Journalistic Practice,” Journal of Communication 42, no. 1 (March 1, 1992): 72.
Concert for Bangladesh (1971), Live Aid (1985) and Live 8 were significantly impacting and led to a “post-humanitarian public-publics whose orientation towards vulnerable others is articulated through a technologized economy of pleasure oriented towards the self.” Lilie Chouliaraki, The Ironic Spectator, 134.
Jeff Jarvis, “How Katrina Humbled the American News Machine,” The Guardian, September 12, 2005, ➝.
The average is first calculated by category within each crisis. The total maximum deviation of the content classified by categories and crisis is 9 percent.
“Darién Gap: The Jungle Where Poor Migration Policies Meet,” Human Rights Watch, September 11, 2024, ➝.
See YouTube channels: @baldandbankrupt, @manuelmonterrosa, and @TimmyKarter.
Andrew Herscher, Displacements: Architecture and Refugee (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2017), 6.
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others; Luc Boltanski, Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). First published in French in 1993.
