Current Work: Attention, Visibility, Regard
Dayan’s current work is concerned with understanding the role of media in managing social attention. His ethnographic explorations of granting, denying or imposing attention in situations of conflict, controversy, or terrorism are conducted in parallel with a reflexion on the status of visibility in contemporary societies. Three major modalities of visibility are discussed such as « Appearing », « Witnessing » and finally « Monstrating » (from the Latin verb ‘monstrare’ : to show ): a notion that stresses the practices and « gazing acts » which structure visibility in the fields of journalism, television, and cinema.
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