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Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis

  • Stephen Coleman
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Crisis and the Media
This chapter is in the book Crisis and the Media

Abstract

This chapter considers the 2008 global financial crisis as an example of how crises are imagined and scripted as political projects before they are mediated as a social reality. It argues that the articulation of this reality was discursively constructed and selectively mediated and that it is impossible to think about how crises are imagined and debated without thinking about the discursive constraints that frame their construction.

Abstract

This chapter considers the 2008 global financial crisis as an example of how crises are imagined and scripted as political projects before they are mediated as a social reality. It argues that the articulation of this reality was discursively constructed and selectively mediated and that it is impossible to think about how crises are imagined and debated without thinking about the discursive constraints that frame their construction.

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.76.02col

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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