Traumatized victims and mutilated bodies
Human rights and the ‘politics of immediation’ in the Rohingya crisis of Burma/Myanmar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8094066 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Brooten (0000-0002-1795-1713, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, corresponding author), Syed Irfan Ashraf (0000-0001-8471-4913, Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Ngozi Akinro (0000-0001-9894-6176), Ngozi Agwaziam Akinro (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 717-734 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Communication Gazette (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1748048515611022 |
| OpenAlex | W2336512543 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 11 |
In June of 2012, global media attention turned to the deadly violence erupting in Western Burma/Myanmar between the Rakhine Buddhists and the stateless Muslim Rohingya, widely identified as one of the world's most persecuted minorities. This study employs critical human rights theory and literature on the use of emotion in media to analyze the constructions of the Rohingya situation in The New York Times (NYT), Inter Press Service (IPS). and the largest and most active Rohingya Facebook site, the Rohingya Community page. The Facebook page engages in an obvious politics of immediation, in which social actors mobilize extreme, violent victim images to provoke global political activism. Surprisingly, the NYT employs a similarly straightforward delineation of the savage–victim–savior framework while the IPS coverage is far more complex. This suggests the utility of a concept we have called the corporate politics of immediation and raises important questions about mainstream conflict reporting
Criminology · Human rights · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Gender Studies · Law
From media to hypermedia
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Producing the News
Social Constructivist and Rights-Based Analysis of Global Governance of Statelessness
Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants
Media Coverage of Human Rights in the USA and UK
Visual themes and frames of the Rohingya crisis
Stranded at Sea
Blind Spots in Human Rights Coverage
News Framing of the Rohingya Crisis
Malaysia and the Rohingya
Introduction
Bullets and Boomerangs
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |