A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat

ISBN-13: 9781138603066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Fred Vultee

Opis

Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content, and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  Introduction: Media Framing, Securitization and Narrative Across Disciplines;  1. Cold War to Long War: Security, Securitization and Threat;  2. State and Nation: Culture, Identity and Exceptionalism;  3. Media Framing: Still Fractured After All These Years;  4. At the Paragraph Factory: Professional Practice and the Routines of Objectivity;  5. Risk and Crisis: What Scares you and What Kills You;  6. Effect in Media, Effect of Media: Securitization in the Lab;  7. GERMANY BANS SAUSAGES: Discourse, Magic Words and Boundary Work;  8. "Our Way of Life is at Stake": A Century of Securitization;  9. The Normative Turn: Ethics in Securitization and Media;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Fred Vultee is associate professor of journalism at Wayne State University, USA. Before earning his doctorate, he was an editor at US newspapers for 25 years. His research concentrates on media practice and its impact on attitudes toward security and credibility.