Disasters and the Media
Disasters and the Media Disasters in today's globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. This book offers unique insights into how news media today make…
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Disasters and the Media
Disasters in today's globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. 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. The media play a critical role in communicating and making sense of these cataclysmic events.
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. 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. Ultimately, the book calls attention to the media possibilities for
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