Book
Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality
Palgrave MacMillan Ltd.
2010
Abstract
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the relationship between the news, media and death. Driven by a perceived ubiquity of death and dying on television, in newspapers and on the internet, many scholars have attempted to more closely examine aspects of this coverage. The result is that there now exists a large body of scholarly work on death in the news, yet what has been lacking is a comprehensive synthesis of the field. This book seeks to close this gap by analyzing the scholarship on death in the news by way of a thematic approach. It provides a historical overview, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online. This fascinating account provides a much needed overview of what we currently know about death in the news and provides food for thought for future studies in the field. [Book Synopsis]
Details
- Title
- Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality
- Authors
- Folker Hanusch (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- 199
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230289765
- ISBN
- 9780230230460
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449685502621
- Output Type
- Book
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