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[ecrea] New book: The Mourning News : Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

Wed Jan 10 21:57:25 GMT 2018



***The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age***


By Tal Morse


The Peter Lang Publishing Group | December 2017


ISBN: 9781433144660


Links:

https://www.peterlang.com/search?q1=The+mourning+news&searchBtn=

https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Mourning-News-Tal-Morse/9781433144639?ref=grid-view&qid=1515582777826&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Mourning-News-Reporting-Violent-Global/dp/1433144638/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515583638&sr=1-1&keywords=the+mourning+news

Description:

A conventional wisdom in media studies is that "when it bleeds it leads". The media love violence and from the newsroom perspective, negative news is good news. Violent death often makes it to the headlines, and mass violent death events often become media events that receive immediate continuous attention worldwide. However, reporting violent death is not only about sending information, but also about the maintenance of society. News about violent death functions as media rituals which elicit grief and inform a sense of care and belonging. Accordingly, this book takes a broader sociological and anthropological approach to considering the role of death and the media in organising social life in a global age. Based on literature on solidarity and social cohesion, death rituals, media rituals, and journalism studies, this book examines whether and how the performance of the media at the occurrence of mass violent death events informs solidarity and interconnectedness on a cosmopolitan level.

The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses the coverage of three different case studies (terror attack, war and natural disaster) by two transnational news networks (BBC World News and Al-Jazeera English). This comparative analysis showcases the centrality of news media in selectively cultivating a sense of cosmopolitan solidarity in a global age.

Series: Global Crises and the Media


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