Eline Huiberts
Ghent University
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Media, Culture & Society | 2018
Eline Huiberts; Stijn Joye
Journalists domesticate news about distant events to bring such events closer to the audience and thus make them more relevant and appealing; however, knowledge about the actual audience’s reactions toward domesticated news is lacking. Central to this study is understanding how an audience makes use of domestication strategies in viewing and reacting to mediated distant suffering. Earlier text-based research has found several ways of domesticating distant suffering that can invite an audience to care. Building further on this media-centered study, 10 focus groups reveal a two-flow model of domestication, consisting of first-level domestication on the production side by journalists and second-level domestication, in which audience members themselves use strategies of domestication to make sense of distant suffering.
ISSN: 1613-4087 | 2015
Eline Huiberts
While death is one of the few certainties of life, the meaning of death and the process of dying, of grieving and mourning, of killing or extending life is less than certain and subject to much interpretation and speculation. The social construction of death: Interdisciplinary perspectives explores the tension between the inevitable biological, material and radical fixed notion of death and the fluidity and contingency of processes of meaning-making that surround death and dying. Following the original and creative interdisciplinary endeavors taken in this book, this edited volume of twelve chapters represents a true contribution to the field of thanatological research in particular and to social sciences and humanities in general. Starting from a post-structuralist point of view, The social construction of death: Interdisciplinary perspectives applies a social constructionist approach to examine and explore how death and dying, and especially social processes surrounding death and dying, are given meaning to. Throughout the book, it is understood that “society – and all objects and subjects functioning therein – is the outcome of continuous processes of meaning-making, rather than a fixed reality” (p. 3). Following this social constructionist understanding, the authors differentiate between social constructionist (macro) and social constructivist (micro) perspectives in social sciences, and it is argued that – rather than viewing such macro/micro-, or collective/individual understandings as dichotomies – they ought to be viewed as a continuum. The holistic view towards social phenomena is a recurring theme throughout the rest of the book as the collective and the individual are investigated alongside each other. This is to further extrapolate people’s interpretation of death, dying, illness and other subjects relating to death. The book consists of four parts, each containing three chapters that focus on another dimension of the social construction of death. While all presented studies are theoretically embedded, Part I is most evidently dedicated to demonstrating the use of a social constructionist approach to better understand social processes surrounding death. Van Brussel (Chapter 1), for example, adopts Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) discourse theory – a theory emphasizing
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network | 2015
Eline Huiberts; Stijn Joye
The SAGE international encyclopedia of mass media and society | 2019
Eline Huiberts; Elke Mahieu
Archive | 2018
Eline Huiberts
International Journal of Communication | 2016
Eline Huiberts
ISSN: 1613-4087 | 2016
Eline Huiberts
ICA's 66th Annual Conference - Communicating with Power | 2016
Eline Huiberts
Global Humanitarian and Media Culture (GHMC) conference | 2015
Eline Huiberts
The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network (MeCCSA-PGN) Conference | 2014
Eline Huiberts; Stijn Joye