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Media, Culture & Society | 2018

Close, but not close enough? Audience’s reactions to domesticated distant suffering in international news coverage

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

Van Brussel, L., and Carpentier, N. (Eds.): The social construction of death: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 296 pp.

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

Bring in the Audience! Exploring an Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Audience Reactions to Mediated Distant Suffering

Eline Huiberts; Stijn Joye


The SAGE international encyclopedia of mass media and society | 2019

Ethics of representation

Eline Huiberts; Elke Mahieu


Archive | 2018

The distant audience? A multi-method study about people’s reactions towards mediated distant suffering

Eline Huiberts


International Journal of Communication | 2016

Building Bridges, Filling Gaps: Toward an Integrative Interdisciplinary and Mixed Method Approach for Future Audience Research in Relation to the Mediation of Distant Suffering

Eline Huiberts


ISSN: 1613-4087 | 2016

Ong, J. C.: The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-divided Philippines. London, UK, Anthem Press, 2015. 226pp.

Eline Huiberts


ICA's 66th Annual Conference - Communicating with Power | 2016

How to react - Moral Reflections of an Audience to Messages of Distant Suffering

Eline Huiberts


Global Humanitarian and Media Culture (GHMC) conference | 2015

Spectators of distant suffering: towards an interdisciplinary approach for empirical inquiry: results of expert interviews

Eline Huiberts


The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network (MeCCSA-PGN) Conference | 2014

'Bring in the audience!' Exploring a multidisciplinary approach to investigating audience reactions to distant suffering

Eline Huiberts; Stijn Joye

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