War of the worlds to social media : mediated communication in times of crisis / edited by Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow.
- Title
- War of the worlds to social media : mediated communication in times of crisis / edited by Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow.
- Published by
- New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
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- Description
- x, 292 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes! Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a formative event for understanding citizens’ media use in times of crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio’s "new" media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication, including: the problem of misrepresentation in mediated communication; the importance of social context for interpreting communication; and the dynamic role of listeners, viewers and users in talking back to media producers and institutions. By examining the "crisis" moment of the original broadcast in its international, academic, technological, industrial, and historical context, as well as the role of contemporary new media in ongoing "crisis"events, this volume demonstrates the broad, historical link between new media and crisis over the course of a century.
- Series statement
- Mediating American history ; vol. 12
- Uniform title
- Mediating American history v. 12.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Contents
- Exchange and interconnection in US network radio: A reinterpretation of the 1938 War of the worlds broadcast -- War of the words: the invasion from Mars and its legacy for mass communication scholarship -- Assassination, insurrection and alien invasion: interwar wireless scares in cross-national comparison -- Receiving the Wars of the worlds 'panic' from across the Atlantic: British press and public responses in 1938 (and since) -- Network radio's greatest test: CBS News' coverage of the D-Day Invasion -- War of the worlds as a radio news training tool -- Body contact: interconnection and embodiment in Howard Stern's 9/11 radio broadcast -- Mediating misinformation: hoaxes and the digital turn -- War of worlds' alternative and mainstream journalistic practices in coverage of the 'Arab Spring' protests -- Social media curation and journalistic reporting on the 'Arab Spring' -- Microblogging and crises: information needs and online -- Narratives during two 'bombing' events in Nairobi, Kenya -- Risk, crisis, and mobilization in the Twitter use of US senatorial candidates in 2010.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain