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Crisis or the media?

Some preliminary reflections
  • Marianna Patrona
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Crisis and the Media
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Abstract

This is the introduction to the edited volume which clarifies the main conceptual and analytical framework adopted in the book. In this approach, ‘crisis’ is viewed as a form of mediated social practice and is placed within the framework of a broader ‘politics of crisis’ brought to life in and by the media. The chapter reviews the relevant literature on mediated representations of and discourses on crisis, and provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

Abstract

This is the introduction to the edited volume which clarifies the main conceptual and analytical framework adopted in the book. In this approach, ‘crisis’ is viewed as a form of mediated social practice and is placed within the framework of a broader ‘politics of crisis’ brought to life in and by the media. The chapter reviews the relevant literature on mediated representations of and discourses on crisis, and provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Crisis or the media? 1
  5. Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
  6. Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
  7. Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
  8. Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
  9. Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
  10. Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
  11. Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
  12. Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
  13. Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
  14. Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
  15. Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
  16. Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
  17. Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
  18. Epilogue 261
  19. Index 267
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76.01pat

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Crisis or the media? 1
  5. Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
  6. Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
  7. Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
  8. Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
  9. Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
  10. Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
  11. Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
  12. Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
  13. Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
  14. Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
  15. Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
  16. Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
  17. Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
  18. Epilogue 261
  19. Index 267
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