Bibliograph

Disasters and the media, Mervi Pantti, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Simon Cottle

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Disasters and the media, Mervi Pantti, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Simon Cottle

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Disasters and the media

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mervi Pantti, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Simon Cottle

Series statement

Global crises and the media, v. 7

Table Of Contents

Introduction: disasters and the media: why now? -- Perspectives on disasters: globalization, citizenship, and emotion -- Media and disasters in a global age -- The geopolitics of disaster coverage -- Emotional discourses in disaster news -- Making disasters mean and politically matter -- Producing news, witnessing disasters -- Compassion, nation and cosmopolitan imagination -- Disaster citizenship and the assumption of state responsibility -- Anger and accountability in disaster news -- Transformations in disaster visibility -- Conclusion

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