Amateur Images and Global News

Kari Andén-Papadopoulos is associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Media, and Communication at Stockholm University.Mervi Pantti is a lecturer and programme director of the Media and Global Communication Master's Program at the Social University of Helsinki.

• Introduction  – Kari Andén-Papadopoulos and Mervi Pantti PART I: HISTORIES  Chapter 1: Looking Back: Ethics and Aesthetics of Non-Professional Photography – Karin Becker Chapter 2: Amateur Photography in Wartime: Early Histories – Stuart Allan Chapter 3: The Eyewitness in the Age of Digital Transformation – Mette Mortensen PART II: PRACTICES Chapter 4: Amateur Images and Journalistic Authority – Helle Sjøvaag Chapter 5: Transparency and Trustworthiness: Strategies for Incorporating Amateur Photography into News Discourse – Mervi Pantti and Kari Andén-Papadopoulos Chapter 6: Pans and Zooms: The Quality of Amateur Video Covering a Breaking News Story – Ray Niekamp Chapter 7: ‘You Will Die Next’: Killer Images and the Circulation of Moral Hierarchy – Johanna Sumiala Chapter 8: From Columbine to Kauhajoki: Amateur Videos as Acts of Terror – Marguerite Moritz PART III: CIRCULATIONS Chapter 9: Visual Blowback: Soldier Photography and the War in Iraq – Liam Kennedy Chapter 10: In Amateurs We Trust: Readers Assessing Non-Professional News Photographs – Liina Puustinen and Janne Seppänen Chapter 11: ‘More Real and Less Packaged’: Audience Discourses on Amateur News Content and Their Effects on Journalism Practice – Andy Williams, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Claire Wardle

'The book is well structured, the language well edited, and the ideas succinctly developed and appropriate for journalism scholars and professors, as well as for researchers involved in the journalistic enquiry ... an entertaining read.' – Emmanuel Ngwainmbi for International Journal of Communication Review