information:classification, structural:summarization
When the media becomes the agent of representations in an event like genocide, the plurality of representations is recognized as inevitable, because the media can not be understood as a mirror of objective reality. Media outlets construct narratives (or representations) by the selection, framing and composition of information. They report on events of global significance in certain cultural and political contexts in which the contesting representations based on the fragmentary memories of traumatized survivors, perpetrators and witnesses are fought over by politicians and other interested parties. Scholars acknowledge that the labeling of events and communities imposes values and rules on the object of the representation. The impact of such media narratives on the formation of collective representations is still being studied.