Crisis and the Media

Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres

Editor

Marianna Patrona | Hellenic Army Academy

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How is ‘crisis’, one of the most resonating words in the modern world, related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and communicated in contemporary media discourse. Studies in this book advance our understanding of crises as social events that are discursively constructed, performed, responded to, but also ‘rehearsed’ as a form of social practice. Relying on the application of techniques of discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA), including visual analysis, the book provides a wealth of empirical evidence on how crisis is mediated across a range of written, oral and visual media. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of media, who combine an interest in discourse analysis with disciplines as diverse as media and cultural studies, political communication, and sociology.

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 76] 2018. viii, 270 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76

Table of Contents

Contributors | pp. vii–viii

Crisis or the media? Some preliminary reflections

Marianna Patrona | pp. 1–14

Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives

Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis

Stephen Coleman | pp. 17–32

Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis: ‘Doing crisis’ as a (recontextualized) social practice

Antoon De Rycker | pp. 33–56

Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media

Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts

Jennifer Cope | pp. 59–84

Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’: Interactionally constructing the Greek debt crisis on the news

Marianna Patrona | pp. 85–106

Chapter 5. “All good people have debts”: Framing the Greek crisis in television fiction

Georgia Aitaki | pp. 107–126

Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands: Politics and journalism in neoliberal times

Diana Jacobsson | pp. 127–150

Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises: A news values approach

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Philippa Smith | pp. 151–176

Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland : Political discourse in interesting times

Michael Higgins | pp. 177–202

Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media

Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives

Yrjö Tuunanen and Heidi Hirsto | pp. 205–230

Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere

Angela Smith | pp. 231–260

Epilogue: Redefining crisis reporting

Stuart Allan | pp. 261–266

Index | pp. 267–270

“We live in a crisis-ridden age, where the crises are complex, carrying real and profound consequences. Our ways of understanding them, however, are defined by discourse – especially the discourses of journalism and the media. This book provides an indispensable guide to the ways in which media discourse is mobilised to make sense of the severe dislocations of our time – whether they be social, political or economic. It is full of timely case studies, illuminated by a rich range of analytic methods; an interdisciplinary triumph.”

Martin Montgomery, University of Macau

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