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@MISC{Höijer_thediscourse,
author = {Birgitta Höijer},
title = {The Discourse of Global Compassion and the Media},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The sentiment of compassion is increasingly ex-ploited in politics and in the media. We may talk about a compassionate trend or, more broadly, a de-veloping discourse of compassion. The purpose of this article is to discuss that development with a special focus on global com-passion and the role of the media. The media ex-pose pictures of distant victims of civil wars, geno-cide, massacres and other violence against civil populations, and play a basic role in giving public-ity to human suffering. The audience is expected to respond as good citizens with compassion and ra-tional commitment. But the discourse of global compassion is wider than that. It is embedded in different institutional
