The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

ISBN-13: 9781433144646 / Angielski / Twarda / 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

"Do we grieve for the deaths of strangers, and if so, by what means? Are all strangers made equal in this grief by the representation of their deaths in contemporary media? And can media representations of the deaths of strangers create and sustain a cosmopolitan framework of ethical care that transcends national boundaries and global power asymmetries? These are the urgent moral, political and communicative questions posed with interpretative acuity in Tal Morse's comparative exploration of television news coverage of mass-death events-the 2011 Norway Attacks, the 2008-2009 Gaza War, and the 2010 Haitian Earthquake. Insightful and profound, The Mourning News casts a powerful new light on how media shape the terrain of global moral concern."-Paul Frosh, Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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.