New Book: Representing Death in the News

Representing Death in the News
Journalism, Media and Mortality
Folker Hanusch
Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 9780230230460
£50.00, US$80

‘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

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 examine aspects of this coverage. The
result is that there now exists a large body of scholarly work on death
in the news, yet what has been lacking is a comprehensive synthesis of
the field. This book seeks to close this gap by analyzing the
scholarship on death in the news by way of a thematic approach. It
provides a historical overview, looks at the conditions of production,
content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the
representation of death online. This fascinating account provides a
much-needed overview of what we currently know about death in the news
and offers food for thought for future studies in the field.

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
published widely on the topic of death and the news media, including in
journals such as Journalism Studies, Mortality and Media International
Australia.

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