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Creating the witness : documenting genocide on film, video, and the Internet /
Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Visible evidence ;
v. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how they can take action in the real world. Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book asks, how do visual media work to produce witnesses-au. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0816681929 9780816681921 9781452948812 145294881X |