- Title
- Natural disaster news and communities of feeling: The affective interpellation of local and global publics
- Creator
- Yell, Susan
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70461
- Identifier
- vital:6506
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2012.693295
- Identifier
- ISSN:1035-0330
- Abstract
- This paper engages with contemporary debates around the mediation of distant suffering by examining the ways in which news selection and reporting interpellate audiences into communities of feeling, in which affective belonging is structured by multimodal rhetorical strategies. Concepts drawn from discursive psychology and systemic-functional linguistics (appraisal theory) are used to show how news coverage of natural disasters positions audiences affectively. Analysis of Australian print media coverage of the 2009 Australian bushfires and the 2010 Haiti earthquake will be used to show how this process differs for local and international events. The paper contributes to debates on the “emotionalisation” of public culture by exploring the precise functions of affect within disaster reporting; in particular, how the production of various kinds of affects in the wake of a disaster shapes local and global publics.
- Relation
- Social Semiotics Vol. 22, no. 4 (2012 2012), p. 409-428
- Rights
- Copyright Routledge
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Disaster news; Emotions; Affect; Global public; Appraisal theory; 16 Studies In Human Society; 19 Studies In Creative Arts and Writing; 20 Language, Communication and Culture
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