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Title Media and mass atrocity : the Rwanda genocide and beyond / editor, Allan Thompson ; foreword, Roméo Dallaire.

Publication Info. Waterloo, ON, Canada : Centre for International Governance Innovation, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 625 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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 -- 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. The news media not only 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 over the 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Introduction -- The rwanda case -- After mass atrocity -- Echoes of rwanda -- Journalism and mass atrocity -- Social media: the new actor -- Prevention -- Conclusion.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Mass media and ethnic relations -- Rwanda.
Mass media and ethnic relations.
Rwanda.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Mass media and the war.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Propaganda.
Genocide -- Rwanda.
Genocide.
Genocide in mass media.
Genocide in mass media.
Rwandan Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
Chronological Term 1994
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Dallaire, Roméo, writer of foreword.
Thompson, Allan, 1963- editor.
Centre for International Governance Innovation, issuing body.
Other Form: Thompson, Allan, 1963- Media and mass atrocity. Waterloo, Ontario : Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2019 1928096727 9781928096726 (OCoLC)1078787681
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