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

***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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