Representing death in the news
Subtitle: journalism, media and mortality
By: Folker Hanusch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780230230460
Description: Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the relationship between the news, media and death. Driven by a perceived ubiquity of death and dying on television, in newspapers and on the internet, many scholars have attempted to more closely examine aspects of this coverage. The result is€that there now exists a large body of scholarly work on death in the news, yet what has been lacking is a comprehensive synthesis of the field. This book seeks to close this gap by analyzing the scholarship on death in the news by way of a thematic approach. It provides a historical overview, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online. This fascinating account provides a much needed overview of what we currently know about death in the news and provides food for thought for future studies in the field.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A history of news about death; title: How news media place values on lives; title: Visual displays of death; title: The impact of covering traumatic assignments; title: Audience responses to death in the news; title: Journalism's role in constructing grief; title: Representing death in the online age; title: Conclusion.