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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age

Morse, Tal

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Series: Global Crises and the Media, Book 23

TelevisionAnthropologyBusiness of Art

ISBN10: 1433144638
ISBN13: 9781433144639
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Nov 30 2017
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

A conventional wisdom in media studies is that when it bleeds it leads. The media love violence and from the newsroom perspective, negative news is good news. Violent death often makes it to the headlines, and mass violent death events often become media events that receive immediate continuous attention worldwide. However, reporting violent death is not only about sending information, but also about the maintenance of society. News about violent death functions as media rituals which elicit grief and inform a sense of care and belonging. Accordingly, this book takes a broader sociological and anthropological approach to considering the role of death and the media in organising social life in a global age. Based on literature on solidarity and social cohesion, death rituals, media rituals, and journalism studies, this book examines whether and how the performance of the media at the occurrence of mass violent death events informs solidarity and interconnectedness on a cosmopolitan level.

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