[ecrea] New Book: Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality by Folker Hanusch

>New Book
>
>Representing Death in the News
>Journalism, Media and Mortality
>Folker Hanusch
>Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan
>ISBN 9780230230460
>£50.00, US$80
>
>â¬ÜIn this remarkably lucid and accomplished study Folker Hanusch
>explores the social construction of death in the news. A must-read for
>all those interested in how mediated death and dying enters into public
>life and private thoughts.â¬"
>- Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communications, Cardiff
>University, UK
>
>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 offers food for thought for future studies in the field.
>
>Folker Hanusch is Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Communication
>at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has worked as a
>journalist for Australian and German-language newspapers, and has
>published widely on the topic of death and the news media, including in
>journals such as Journalism Studies, Mortality and Media International
>Australia.
>
>Available direct from Palgrave Macmillan
>http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=360787
>
>or from good bookstores, including Amazon
>http://www.amazon.com/Representing-Death-News-Journalism-Mortality/dp/0230230466
>
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Representing-Death-News-Journalism-Mortality/dp/0230230466
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>Dr Folker Hanusch
>Lecturer in Journalism
>School of Communication
>Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
>University of the Sunshine Coast
>Maroochydore DC, Qld 4558
>Australia
>
>Tel: +61 (0) 7 5430 2852
>Fax: +61 (0) 7 5430 2883
>Email: (fhanusch /at/ usc.edu.au)
>Web:
>http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/ArtsSocialSciences/Staff/038001.htm

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