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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. Review 'In this remarkably lucid and accomplished study Folker Hanusch explores the social construction of death in the news. A must-read for all those interested in how mediated death and dying enters into public life and private thoughts.' - Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communications, Cardiff University, UK About the Author FOLKER HANUSCH is Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Communication at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. He has also worked as a journalist for Australian and German-language newspapers, and has published articles in Journalism Studies and Media International Australia . Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the relationship between the news, media and death. Driven by a perceived ubiquity of death and dying on television, in newspapers and on the internet, many scholars have attempted to more closely examin

Author

Folker Hanusch

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230289765

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Humanities