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Studies in Media and Communications
ISSN: 2050-2060
Subject: Sociology and Public Policy (view other series in this subject area)
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Studies in Media and Communications is a series that presents contemporary scholarship on the central dynamic of society - communications. Theoretically grounded, empirical studies drawn from the social sciences focus on the institutional patterns and the dynamic processes of meaning construction.
Drawing from theories in mass media/communications, critical theory, comparative and historical analysis, qualitative and quantitative research yield compelling themes. Applications for policy and for teaching are incorporated. Themes will include: human rights and media; children/youth and new media; communities and information technology; communications and stereotypes; visual sociology.
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Recent Publications
Volume 7: School Shootings Mediatized Violence in a Global Age
Editors: Glenn W. Muschert and Johanna Sumiala
Publication date: 10 Dec 2012
ISBN: 9781780529189
Message from the Editors:
"We have recently experienced again a very, very sad tragedy in the US. It is paradoxical, but I have to say we wish our book was not as topical as it is now. As the editors for this newly published volume, School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age, we want to express our warm thanks to all the contributors in this book for your intellectual and academic efforts in analysing and discussing this disturbing, and unfortunately most real phenomenon. I have no doubt we'd all like to live in this world without school shootings, but since, as we have just witnessed again, these "exceptions" have become more common than we want to think, our task as social scientists is to critically engage with this confusing and complex world of mediatized violence."
Synopsis
School shootings have raised considerable interest among scholars as a global (media) cultural phenomenon and have increased specifically in the 1990s developing into a seeming cultural epidemic.
This book contributes to the current academic discussion on school shootings by analysing this phenomenon in a broader context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life. Mediatized logic has the power to influence us as individuals communicating about the shootings and experiencing the shootings as victimizers, victims, witnesses or bystanders.
In three sections, this book explores shootings from different, yet interconnected, perspectives: a theoretical focus on media and school shootings within various sociological and cultural dimensions, specifically how contemporary media transform school shootings into mediatized violence; a focus on the practices of mediatization, with emphasis on mediated coverage of school shootings and its political, cultural, social and ethical implications; and an examination of the audiences, victims and witnesses of school shootings as well as organizations which try to manage these public crimes of significant media interest.
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Volume 6: Human Rights and Media
Editor: Diana Papademas
Publication date: 17 Oct 2011
ISBN: 9780762300525
This volume introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors. News media, the press, television, cinema, photojournalism, the internet and other documentary forms are among the media investigated by the authors. Civil society dialogue, the rhetoric and ideology of human rights, the propaganda and media responsibility around such themes as war, genocide, ethnic division, nationalism, race, gender, child labor and disability are human rights themes addressed in this volume.
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Cristina Irving Turner
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