Emotional governance
Subtitle: politics, media and terror
By: Barry Richards
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230008397
Subjects: Communication in politics; Political psychology; Mass media -- Psychological aspects; Terrorism -- Press coverage -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The case for emotional governance; title: Shaping the public mind; title: The rise of therapeutic culture; title: Global passions; title: Journalism as emotional labour; title: Rottweilers savage democracy; title: Challenging the media bias; title: Politics as emotional labour; title: Poor emotional governance; title: The four factors of fear; title: Terrorism and the emotional public; title: From emotional audit to communication strategy; title: Market failures; title: Deferring to reality