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Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (New Security Challenges)
Hoskins, Andrew, O'Loughlin, Ben
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Description for Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (New Security Challenges)
Hardcover. The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; JFD; JPWS; JWK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.
The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
New Security Challenges
Number of Pages
217
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230002319
SKU
V9780230002319
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99-15
About Hoskins, Andrew, O'Loughlin, Ben
Author Andrew Hoskins: Andrew Hoskins is Director of the Adam Smith Research Foundation. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical investigation of today s new media ecology and the nature of/challenges for security, and individual, social and cultural memory in this environment. He has an established record of leading externally funded empirical research into the shifting relations between media, ... Read more
Reviews for Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (New Security Challenges)
'... the strength of this book lies in its ability to communicate important ideas from media studies to a broad audience of scholars interested in media discourse... Television and Terror effectively describes how television news, through the mediatization of events, works to constitute the social reality in which we live... In particular, it provides fodder for the argument that television ... Read more