This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more th[...]
'The work is on an important topic that has been oft debated but rarely systematically studied - the political, cultural, and moral effects of distant news coverage of suffering. [The book] is extremely well steeped in the relevant literature, including semiotics, discourse analysis, media and socia[...]
This volume fills a significant gap in the current understanding of the relationship between media and organizations, by looking at three dimensions of their interplay: (1) how the media industry changes through the use of new technologies (Media as Business), (2) how organizational identity is re-s[...]
This book sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences, particularly research and theory on the semiotic/linguistic aspects of the social world.[...]