The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

ISBN-13: 9781433144639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 268 str.

Tal Morse

Opis

The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers.

Recenzje

"The Mourning News is an original study that guides us through the complexities of witnessing mass death under conditions of mediatisation. As major broadcasters continue to play a key role in the reporting of distant disasters, Tal Morse's book reminds us that these broadcasters do not simply report on mass death but profoundly shape the ways our communities mourn together. More than this, it compellingly demonstrates that mediatised death does not only unite but also divides us. Rather than honouring our common humanity, it creates its own hierarchies of humanity by subtly proposing whose life matters and whose does not, in the global village."-Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Solidarity, Rituals and the Media - The Mediatisation of Death - Global Crisis Reporting and Cosmopolitanism - Towards the Analytics of Grievability - Empathising Grief-The Case of the 2011 Norway Attacks - Judicial Grief and Condemnator - Moving Grief-The Case of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake - Mediatised Grief and the Fallacy and Promise of Cosmopolitanism - Conclusion - Appendix A - Appendix B - Index.

O autorze

Tal Morse teaches media and communications at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem. He received his PhD from the Department of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on media rituals, death studies, media ethics and visual communications.