Disasters and the media
By: Mervi Pantti, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Simon Cottle
Contributors: Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin; Cottle, Simon, 1956-
Series: Global crises and the media -- v. 7
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433108266; 9781433108259
Subjects: Press coverage; Reporters and reporting; Objectivity; Journalism; Disasters; Television broadcasting of  news
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: disasters and the media: why now?; title: Perspectives on disasters: globalization, citizenship, and emotion; title: Media and disasters in a global age; title: The geopolitics of disaster coverage; title: Emotional discourses in disaster news; title: Making disasters mean and politically matter; title: Producing news, witnessing disasters; title: Compassion, nation and cosmopolitan imagination; title: Disaster citizenship and the assumption of state responsibility; title: Anger and accountability in disaster news; title: Transformations in disaster visibility; title: Conclusion.