ORCID Profile
0000-0002-6302-0397
Current Organisation
Federation University
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 30-11-2016
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 30-11-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1990
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2010
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X1013700113
Abstract: Print and electronic media coverage of disasters raises a multitude of issues about the media's role during and after a crisis. This article focuses on a specific issue: the affective dimension of news media coverage immediately following a crisis. The selection and presentation of bushfire stories not only disseminates information but elicits emotion from audiences. I use textual and visual analysis of The Age newspaper's coverage of the 2009 Victorian bushfires to examine the discursive structuring of affect. Comparisons are made with coverage of earlier bushfire disasters (the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires and the 1939 Black Friday fires) in order to investigate changes in the visual and verbal discourses of bushfire reporting. The article demonstrates that there is an intensification of affect in contemporary media coverage that is not present in the coverage of previous bushfires, and that this has implications for the role of the emotions in public life and for our conception of the public sphere.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
No related grants have been discovered for Susan Yell.