[ecrea] New book: Disasters and the Media

Colleagues may be interested in the latest title in the Global Crises 
and the Media Series:

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Disasters and the Media*

*by Pantti, Mervi / Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin / Cottle, Simon*

New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 
2012. XII, 235 pp. Global Crises and the Media. Vol. 7 General Editor: 
Simon Cottle*, *Print: ISBN 978-1-4331-0825-9 pb. SFR 35.00 / EUR* 28.20 
/ EUR** 29.00 / EUR 26.40 / £ 24.00 / US$ 36.95

Order online: www.peterlang.com <http://www.peterlang.com>

This book offers unique insights into how news media today make 
disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on 
cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how 
globalisation is affecting the meanings of disaster but also considers 
the continued relevance of nations and their citizens as interpretive 
frameworks. It examines how journalists' witnessing of disasters is 
changing in response to new technologies, including social media, and 
how the ideal of objectivity might be challenged by new, more emotional 
and more compassionate forms of story-telling premised on an injunction 
to care. Ultimately, the book calls attention to the media possibilities 
for addressing disasters as global social, political, cultural and 
economic events in which we all have a stake.

Further details: 
http://www.peterlang.com/download/datasheet/54189/datasheet_310825.pdf




Simon Cottle


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