Media, Crisis And Democracy
The contributors to this book explore the way in which crises highlight the problematic issues of media performance in democratic states.\ They examine the relationship between communication and civil society through a number of actual cases of media responses to 'crises', ranging from the Gulf War of 1991 to recent events in Eastern Europe. Individual examples of mediated crises emphasize the complexities of understanding the role of the media in struggles of identity around nationality,...
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The contributors to this book explore the way in which crises highlight the problematic issues of media performance in democratic states. They examine the relationship between communication and civil society through a number of actual cases of media responses to 'crises', ranging from the Gulf War of 1991 to recent events in Eastern Europe. Individual examples of mediated crises emphasize the complexities of understanding the role of the media in struggles of identity around nationality, ethnicity and gender.
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Media and the Politics of Crisis11The Crisis of the Sovereign State162Media and the State in Periods of Crisis343Television, the Crisis of Democracy and the Persian Gulf War444Framing the Crisis in Eastern Europe635Media and the Terminal Crisis of Communism in Poland796Violence and Terror in and by the Media947Crisis as Spectacle: Tabloid News and the Politics of Outrage1088Media in Crises: Observers, Actors or Scapegoats?1209Media and the Invisible Crisis of Everyday Life13310Media and the Commodification of Crisis14411On New Uses of Media in Time of Crisis162References181Index191
