Global Crisis Reporting

by Cottle

• ISBN13: 9780335221394
• ISBN10: 0335221394
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

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? ..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...The book: .. 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 ..Global Crisis Reporting is key reading for students in media, communications, globalization and journalism studies.

Author Biography

Simon Cottle is Professor of Media and Communications,.Deputy Head of School and Director of the Mediatized.Conflict Research Group in the School of Journalism, Media.and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK. He is author of Mediatized Conflict (Open University Press 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Series Editor's Foreword	p. xiii
Global Crisis? What Crisis?	p. 1
Global crises: eight moments	p. 3
the planet imperilled. It's official	p. 3
a visible death in the 'global war on terror'	p. 5
migrants and colliding worlds	p. 7
pandemics on planes	p. 7
world disasters, world compassion	p. 9
poverty and people power	p. 9
bearing witness and human rights	p. 11
financial meltdowns and overlapping communities of fate	p. 13
Global crises defined	p. 14
Global crisis in context	p. 19
Plan of the book	p. 25
Journalism in the Global Age	p. 26
International communications and media globalization	p. 28
News media as emissaries of global dominance	p. 29
News media as emissaries of the global public sphere	p. 30
Peripheral visions and professional preoccupations	p. 32
Peripheral visions	p. 32
Professional preoccupations and practices	p. 33
The demise of foreign correspondence?	p. 35
Emergent new(s) trajectories in the research field	p. 37
Mediating global crises	p. 38
Theorizing contingency and complexity	p. 39
(Un)Natural Disasters: The Calculus of Death and the Ritualization of Catastrophe	p. 43
Geopolitics and the calculus of death	p. 45
The ritualization of catastrophe and the politics of despair	p. 50
The South Asian tsunami: rituals of solidarity and the 'Cruel Sea'	p. 51
Hurricane Katrina: disaster myths and the ritualization of dissent	p. 60
(Un)natural disasters as global focusing events	p. 69
Ecology and Climate Change: From Science and Sceptics to Spectacle and ...	p. 71
Environmental reporting: what's known	p. 74
Climate change: science and sceptics	p. 79
Climate change: spectacle and ...	p. 84
Forced Migrations and Human Rights: Antinomies in the Mediated Ethics of Care	p. 92
News, migrants and collective problematization: three case studies	p. 93
A different story: journalism and the mediated ethics of care	p. 98
Human rights on the news agenda	p. 102
New Wars and the Global War on Terror: On Vicarious, Visceral Violence	p. 109
Communicating war: controls and contingencies	p. 111
Hidden wars, new wars	p. 114
Information war and the new western way of war	p. 118
Spectacle and the global war on terror	p. 122
The 'CNN Effect' And 'Compassion Fatigue': Researching Beyond Commonsense	p. 127
The CNN effect: too good to be true?	p. 128
Compassion fatigue: too bad to be right?	p. 131
Humanitarian NGOs, News Media and the Changing Relations of Communicative Power	p. 146
Humanitarian NGOs in the global age	p. 147
Aid NGOs in interaction with the news media	p. 150
The crowded aid field and organizational branding	p. 150
Packaging media reports and facilitating the field	p. 151
Regionalizing 'global' humanitarianism	p. 153
Risk, reputation and mediated scandals	p. 155
Make Poverty History: campaign dilemmas behind the scenes	p. 157
New communication technologies: reconfiguring communicative power	p. 160
Global Crisis Reporting: Conclusions	p. 164
Researching complexity and contingency	p. 166
Global crises, nations and public sphere(s)	p. 168
Glossary	p. 172
References	p. 178
Index	p. 193
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