Contributors

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