Introduction: Why media witnessing? Why now? / Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski
Part I: Perspectives on Media Witnessing
Witnessing / John Durham Peters
An afterword: torchlight red on sweaty faces / John Durham Peters
Telling presences: witnessing, mass media, and the imagined lives of strangers / Paul Frosh
Mundane witness / John Ellis
Witness as a cultural form of communication historical roots, structural dynamics and current appearances / Günter Thomas
Archaic witnessing and contemporary news media / Menahem Blondheim and Tamar Liebes
Part II: Performances of Media Witnessing
Witnessing as a field / Tamar Ashuri and Amit Pinchevski
From danger to trauma: affective labor and the journalistic discourse of witnessing / Carrie Rentschler
Scientific witness, testimony, and mediation / Joan Leach
Witnessing trauma on film / Roy Brand.
