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Crisis and the Media
Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres
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How is ‘crisis’, one of the most resonating words in the modern world, related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and communicated in contemporary media discourse. Studies in this book advance our understanding of crises as social events that are discursively constructed, performed, responded to, but also ‘rehearsed’ as a form of social practice. Relying on the application of techniques of discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA), including visual analysis, the book provides a wealth of empirical evidence on how crisis is mediated across a range of written, oral and visual media. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of media, who combine an interest in discourse analysis with disciplines as diverse as media and cultural studies, political communication, and sociology.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 76] 2018. viii, 270 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 February 2018
Published online on 2 February 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Contributors | pp. vii–viii
- Crisis or the media? Some preliminary reflectionsMarianna Patrona | pp. 1–14
- Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
- Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisisStephen Coleman | pp. 17–32
- Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis: ‘Doing crisis’ as a (recontextualized) social practiceAntoon De Rycker | pp. 33–56
- Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
- Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion textsJennifer Cope | pp. 59–84
- Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’: Interactionally constructing the Greek debt crisis on the newsMarianna Patrona | pp. 85–106
- Chapter 5. “All good people have debts”: Framing the Greek crisis in television fictionGeorgia Aitaki | pp. 107–126
- Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands: Politics and journalism in neoliberal timesDiana Jacobsson | pp. 127–150
- Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises: A news values approachNuria Lorenzo-Dus and Philippa Smith | pp. 151–176
- Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland : Political discourse in interesting timesMichael Higgins | pp. 177–202
- Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
- Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narrativesYrjö Tuunanen and Heidi Hirsto | pp. 205–230
- Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the TwittersphereAngela Smith | pp. 231–260
- Epilogue: Redefining crisis reportingStuart Allan | pp. 261–266
- Index | pp. 267–270
“We live in a crisis-ridden age, where the crises are complex, carrying real and profound consequences. Our ways of understanding them, however, are defined by discourse – especially the discourses of journalism and the media. This book provides an indispensable guide to the ways in which media discourse is mobilised to make sense of the severe dislocations of our time – whether they be social, political or economic. It is full of timely case studies, illuminated by a rich range of analytic methods; an interdisciplinary triumph.”
Martin Montgomery, University of Macau
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