Disasters and the media

Pantti, Mervi, Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8461-5795 and Cottle, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8727-3367 2012. Disasters and the media. Global Crises and the Media, vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang.

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Disasters in today's globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communicating and making sense of these cataclysmic events. This book offers unique insights into how news media today make disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how globalization is affecting the meanings of disaster but also considers the continued relevance of nations and their citizens as interpretive frameworks. It examines how journalists' witnessing of disasters is changing in response to new technologies, including social media, and how the ideal of objectivity might be challenged by new, more emotional and more compassionate forms of story-telling premised on an injunction to care. Ultimately, the book calls attention to the media possibilities for addressing disasters as global social, political, cultural and economic events in which we all have a stake.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Publisher:	Peter Lang
ISBN:	9781433108266
Related URLs:	Publisher
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/30990

Citation Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item