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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464347403321

Autore

Eli Karin

Titolo

Obesity, eating disorders and the media / / edited by Karin Eli and Stanley Ulijaszek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-08635-X

1-317-08634-1

1-4094-5772-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

306.4613

362.196/398

362.196398

Soggetti

Obesity - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media; Part I Rhetorics of Abjection and Alarm; 2 Alarming Engagements? Exploring Pro-Anorexia Websites in/and the Media; 3 Obesity in the US Media, 1990-2011: Broad Strokes, Broad Consequences; 4 Invisible Fat: The Aesthetics of Food and the Body; 5 From Abject Eating to Abject Being: Representations of Obesity in 'Supersize vs. Superskinny'; Part II Representations of Science and Policy

6 Mothers as Smoking Guns: Fetal Overnutrition and the Reproduction of Obesity 7 Eating Disorders in the Media: The Changing Nature of UK Newspaper Reports; 8 Making the 'Obesity Epidemic': The Role of Science and the News Media; 9 Obesity, Government and the Media; 10 Heavy Viewing: Emergent Frames in Contemporary News Coverage of Obesity; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news



media select which scientific findings and policy decisions to report? Multi-disciplinary in approach, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media presents critical new perspectives on media representations of obesity and eating disorders, with analyses of print, online, and televisual media framings.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784451303321

Titolo

The media and the Rwanda genocide : edited by Allan Thompson ; with a statement by Kofi Annan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor : , : Pluto Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

9786610763368

1-280-76336-1

1-84964-345-8

1-55250-338-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 463 p.)

Disciplina

967.5710431

Soggetti

Genocide - Rwanda

Mass media and ethnic relations - Rwanda

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Mass media and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-454) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Contents"; "Message to Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide"; "Preface"; "Notes on Contributors"; "1 Introduction"; "2 The Media Dichotomy"; "3 Rwanda: Walking the Road to Genocide"; "PART ONE: HATE MEDIA IN RWANDA"; "4 Call to Genocide: Radio in Rwanda, 1994"; "5 RTLM Propaganda: the Democratic Alibi"; "6 Kangura: the Triumph of Propaganda Refined"; "7 Rwandan Private Print Media on the Eve of the Genocide"; "8 Echoes of Violence: Considerations on Radio and Genocide in Rwanda"; "9 RTLM: the Medium that Became a Tool for Mass Murder"

"10 The Effect of RTLM's Rhetoric of Ethnic Hatred in Rural Rwanda";



"11 Journalism in a Time of Hate Media"; "PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE GENOCIDE"; "12 Reporting the Genocide"; "13 Who Failed in Rwanda, Journalists or the Media?"; "14 Reporting Rwanda: the Media and the Aid Agencies"; "15 Limited Vision: How Both the American Media and Government Failed Rwanda"; "16 Missing the Story: the Media and the Rwanda Genocide"; "17 What Did They Say? African Media Coverage of the First 100 Days of the Rwanda Crisis"

"18 Exhibit 467: Genocide Through a Camera Lens"; "19 Media Failure over Rwanda's Genocide"; "20 A Genocide Without Images: White Film Noirs"; "21 Notes on Circumstances that Facilitate Genocide: the Attention Given to Rwanda by the Media and Others Outside Rwanda Before 1990"; "22 The Media's Failure: a Reflection on the Rwanda Genocide"; "23 How the Media missed the Rwanda Genocide"; "24 An Analysis of News Magazine Coverage of the Rwanda Crisis in the United States"; "PART THREE: JOURNALISM AS GENOCIDE: THE MEDIA TRIAL"

"31 Information in Crisis Areas as a Tool for Peace: the Hirondelle Experience"; "32 The Use and Abuse of Media in Vulnerable Societies"; "33 Censorship and Propaganda in Post-Genocide Rwanda"; "34 PG - Parental Guidance or Portrayal of Genocide: the Comparative Depiction of Mass Murder in Contemporary Cinema"; "35 The Responsibility to Report: a New Journalistic Paradigm"; "Bibliography"; "Index"; "A"; "B"; "C"; "D"; "E"; "F"; "G"; "H"; "I"; "J"; "K"; "L"; "M"; "N"; "O"; "P"; "Q"; "R"; "S"; "T"; "U"; "V"; "W"; "Y"; "Z"

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond.