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After tragedy strikes : why claims of trauma and loss promote public outrage and encourage political polarization / Thomas D. Beamish.

"While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcend everyday life's sad yet inevitable traumas to become notorious public events: de facto 'public' tragedies. In these crises, suffering is made publicly visibl...

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Main Author: Beamish, Thomas D. (Author)
Other title:Why claims of trauma and loss promote public outrage and encourage political polarization
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Psychic trauma > Political aspects > United States > 21st century.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects > United States > 21st century.
Secondary traumatic stress > Political aspects > United States > 21st century.
Secondary traumatic stress > Social aspects > United States > 21st century.
Psychic trauma and mass media > United States > 21st century.
Psychic trauma and mass media.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects.
United States.
2000-2099
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the politics of public tragedy
  • A world at risk : late modernity, vulnerability, and public tragedy
  • The political construction of public tragedy : crisis and political communication in an age of blame
  • The media's role in public tragedy : media logics, communication ecology, and trauma reporting
  • Advocating public tragedy : sympathy, celebrity, and tragic harms
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : notes on news media and document analysis.

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