The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
Series: Global Crises and the Media, 23
ISBN 978-1-4331-4463-9
Signature commbox: 10-Conflicts-E 2018
"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses the coverage of three different case studies (terror attack, war and natural disaster) by two transnational news networks (BBC World News and Al-Jazeera English). This comparative analysis showcases the centrality of news media in selectively cultivating a sense of cosmopolitan solidarity in a global age." (Publisher description)
1 Solidarity, Rituals and the Media, 13
2 The Mediatisation of Death, 35
3 Global Crisis Reporting and Cosmopolitanism, 57
4 Towards the Analytics of Grievability, 73
5 Empathising Grief: The Case of the 2011 Norway Attacks, 95
6 Judicial Grief and Condemnatory Grief: The Case of the 2008-2009 Gaza War, 125
7 Moving Grief: The Case of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, 163
8 Mediatised Grief and the Fallacy and Promise of Cosmopolitanism, 195
Conclusion, 221
2 The Mediatisation of Death, 35
3 Global Crisis Reporting and Cosmopolitanism, 57
4 Towards the Analytics of Grievability, 73
5 Empathising Grief: The Case of the 2011 Norway Attacks, 95
6 Judicial Grief and Condemnatory Grief: The Case of the 2008-2009 Gaza War, 125
7 Moving Grief: The Case of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, 163
8 Mediatised Grief and the Fallacy and Promise of Cosmopolitanism, 195
Conclusion, 221
