Discourses of Disorder : : Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media /

Discourses of Disorder : : Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media / / Christopher Hart, Darren Kelsey.

Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Hart, Christopher,
Kelsey, Darren,
MitwirkendeR:
Davies, Matt,
Elnakkouzi, Rania,
Hart, Christopher,
Kelsey, Darren,
Kotzur, Gerrit,
Mayr, Andrea,
Nophakhun, Rotsukhon,
Ostermeyer, Serjoscha,
Pérez-Arredondo, Carolina,
Rantsudu, Boitshwarelo,
Rudanko, Juhani,
Sittler, David,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations 12 B/W tables 25 B/W halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I Language
  • 1 Representations of the Baltimore Riots of July 1812: Political Spin in the Early American Republic
  • 2 Moral Storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, Metaphor and Ideology
  • 3 Why Do They Protest?: The Discursive Construction of ‘Motive’ in Relation to the Chilean Student Movement in the National Alternative Press (2011–13)
  • 4 Crying Children and Bleeding Pensioners against Rambo’s Troop: Perspectivisation in German Newspaper Reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests
  • 5 Taking a Stance through the Voice of ‘Others’: Attribution in News Coverage of a Public Sector Workers’ Strike in Two Botswana Newspapers
  • 6 Media ‘Militant’ Tendencies: How Strike Action in the News Press Is Discursively Constructed as Inherently Violent
  • Part II Multimodality
  • 7 Metaphor and the (1984–5) Miners’ Strike: A Multimodal Analysis
  • 8 Strategic Manoeuvring in Arab Spring Political Cartoons
  • 9 Social Media Activism by Favela Youth in Rio de Janeiro
  • 10 Rioting and Disorderly Behaviour as Political Media Practice: Body Postures on the Streets of L.A. during the Riots of 1992
  • Index

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