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9780230230460

Representing Death in the News Journalism, Media and Mortality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230230460

  • ISBN10:

    0230230466

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-10-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online.

Author Biography

Folker Hanusch is Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Communication at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has worked as a journalist for Australian and German-language newspapers and has also published widely on the topic of death and the news media, including in journals such as Journalism Studies, Mortality and Media International Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. viii
Introductionp. 1
A History of News about Deathp. 13
How News Media Place Values on Lifep. 35
Visual Displays of Deathp. 55
The Impact of Covering Traumatic Assignmentsp. 79
Audience Responses to Death in the Newsp. 99
Journalism's Role in Constructing Griefp. 125
Representing Death in the Online Agep. 145
Conclusionp. 161
Bibliographyp. 172
Indexp. 193
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