From climate change to the global war on terror, from forced migration to humanitarian disasters - these are just some of the global crises addressed in this accessible, ground-breaking book. For the first time, the author situates diverse threats to humanity in a global context and examines how, why and to what extent they are conveyed in today's news media. Global crises are conceived as the dark side of a globalizing world, but how they become reported and constituted in the news media can also help sustain emergent forms of global awareness, global citizenship and global civil society.
- What are ‘global crises' and how do they differ from earlier crises?
- What do recent studies of global crises reporting tell us about the role of the news media in the global age?
- What are the current trends in the fields of journalism and civil society that are now re-shaping the public communication of crises?
The book:
Global Crisis Reporting is key reading for students in media, communications, globalization and journalism studies.
- Draws on original research and scholarship in the field of media and communications
- Deliberately moves beyond nationally confined research studies
- Examines diverse global crises and their communicative politics
- Recognizes global crises and their constitution within global news reporting as defining characteristics of the global age
- ISBN13 9780335221394
- Publish Date 16 December 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English