[ecrea] New book on Hybrid Media Events

*New Book by Emerald Publishing*

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/Hybrid Media Events – The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global 
Circulation of Terrorist Violence/

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What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what purpose do they 
serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these questions by 
re-thinking media events in the contemporary digital media environment 
saturated by intensified circulation of radical violence.

The empirical analyses draw on the investigation of the Charlie Hebdo 
attacks in Paris, in 2015, and the global response the attacks provoked 
in the media audience. The authors pay special attention to the hybrid 
dynamics between the different actors, platforms and messages in such 
media events, explaining how global news media, political elites and 
terrorists interact with ordinary media users in social media. The book 
demonstrates how, for example, hashtags such as “Je suis Charlie” 
circulate from one digital media platform to another and how emotions, 
speed of communication and fight for attention all become hybridized in 
digital media. All these elements, the authors argue, shape the ways in 
which we make sense of global media events in the present digital age.

The authors:

*Johanna Sumiala*is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology and 
Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

*Katja Valaskivi*is Vice Dean for Research at Faculty of Communication 
Sciences, and Research Director at Tampere Research Centre for 
Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET), University of Tampere.

*Minttu Tikka*is a Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences/Media 
and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki.

*Jukka Huhtamäki*Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory at Tampere 
University of Technology, TUT, is a Co-founder of Innovation Ecosystems 
Network.


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