Description
Book Synopsis
- What are âglobal crises' and how do they differ from earlier crises?
- What do recent studies of global crises reporting tell us about the role of the news media in the global age?
- What are the current trends in the fields of journalism and civil society that are now re-shaping the public communication of crises?
From climate change to the global war on terror, from forced migration to humanitarian disasters - these are just some of the global crises addressed in this accessible, ground-breaking book. For the first time, the author situates diverse threats to humanity in a global context and examines how, why and to what extent they are conveyed in today's news media. Global crises are conceived as the dark side of a globalizing world, but how they become reported and constituted in the news media can also help sustain emergent forms of global awareness, global citizenship and global civil society.
The book:
- Draws on original research and scholarship in the f
Table of Contents
1. Global crisis, what crisis?
2. Journalism in the global age
3. (Un)natural disasters: The calculus of death and the ritualization of catastrophe
4. Ecology and climate change: From science and sceptics to spectacle and…
5. Forced migrations and human rights: Antinomies in the mediated ethics of care
6. New wars and the global war on terror: On vicarious, visceral violence
7. The 'CNN effect' and 'compassion fatigue': Researching beyond commonsense
8. Humanitarian NGOs, news media and the changing relations of communicative power
9. Global crisis reporting: Conclusions
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