Crisis and the media : narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres / edited by Marianna Patrona.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crisis or the media? Some preliminary reflections / Marianna Patrona -- Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives. Rehearsing the crisis / Stephen Coleman -- Reconceptualizing crisis: "doing crisis" as a (recontextualized) social practice / Antoon De Rycker -- Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts / Jennifer Cope -- We-will-go-bank-rupt: Interactionally constructing the Greek Debt Crisis on the news / Marianna Patrona -- "All good people have debts": framing the Greek Crisis in television fiction / Georgia Aitaki -- The image of the empty hands: politics and journalism in neoliberal times / Diane Jacobsson -- The visual construction of political crises: a news values approach / Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Philippa Smith -- Impending crisis in Scotland: Political discourse in interesting times / Michael Higgins -- Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives / Yrjö Tuunanen and Heidi Hirsto -- Gender in "crisis", everyday sexism and the Twittersphere / Angela Smith -- Epilogue -- Redefining crisis reporting / Stuart Allan.

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