Death Makes the News
How the Media Censor and Display the Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20033407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Fishman (0000-0003-2867-8166, corresponding author), Jessica M Fishman |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Death Makes the News (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | NYU Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18574/nyu/9780814770757.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4240129192 |
| ISBN | 9780814770757 |
| Open Library | OL27399320M |
| Google Books | EYkLtAEACAAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of news is never a random process, and photojournalism is far more than a mechanical undertaking. Because photographs literally craft boundaries, systematically hiding one reality while illuminating another, this book extensively examines how pictures represent tragedy, uncovering surprising editorial forces that persistently structure the way the news media cover death. Some deaths are concealed, while others are illustrated in great detail, and this book develops formulas predicting these fates. We see how deep political cleavages, especially those powered by nationalism, create remarkable patterns of visibility and invisibility. The patterns are striking, but they overturn long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy, raising fundamental questions about the role of news images. This behind-the-scenes account shares many photographs, including images that were censored from the news. It also explores in-depth interviews with industry leaders who admit to self-censorship and industry censorship. It engages impassioned controversies over bearing witness, protecting privacy, and other sensitive topics
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Censorship · Copycat · Craft · Geography · Invisibility · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visibility · Visual arts · Witness · Computer Science · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology · Death · Journalism · Press coverage · Social aspects
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Premonitory breath
To Show or Not to Show? The Depiction of Terror and Death in Nairobi
Multimodal representation of violent death in mass media
Viewer Preferences for Publication of Graphic Images of War
Mass Media Depictions of Victim Suffering
Colonial legacies and local visions
Ethical Principles in the Portrayal of Death and Suffering
Memento Mori
Documenting the Dead
Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites
Through the Graphic Lens
Picturing Tragedy
More than mortality data
Postmortem Identity Work in Territorial-colonialist Alaska
Factors Influencing the Journalistic Circulation of Traumatic Images
Perceptions of Imagery in Tragic News
| Citations per year | 2.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |