03570nam 2200721 a 450 991096847680332120240410163226.01-283-23589-797866132358930-253-00521-3(CKB)2550000000047227(OCoLC)753560294(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492911(SSID)ssj0000539332(PQKBManifestationID)12232423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539332(PQKBWorkID)10568629(PQKB)10167981(MiAaPQ)EBC3014854(Au-PeEL)EBL3014854(CaPaEBR)ebr10492911(CaONFJC)MIL323589(BIP)46014950(BIP)32716225(EXLCZ)99255000000004722720110211d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMurder, the media, and the politics of public feelings remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. /Jennifer Petersen1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Press20111 online resource (222 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-253-35659-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : media, emotion, and the public sphere -- Mourning Matthew Shepard : grief, shame, and the public sphere -- "Hate is not a Laramie value" : translating feelings into law -- The murder of James Byrd Jr. : the political pedagogy of melodrama -- The visibility of suffering, injustice, and the law -- Conclusion : feeling in the public sphere.In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard -- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming -- and James Byrd Jr. -- an African American man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas -- provoked a passionate public outrage. The intense media coverage of the murders made moments of violence based in racism and homophobia highly visible and which eventually led to the passage of The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The role the media played in cultivating, shaping, and directing the collective emotional response toward these crimes is the subject of this gripping new book by Jennifer Petersen. Tracing the emotional exchange from news stories to the creation of law, Petersen calls for an approach to media and democratic politics that takes into account the role of affect in the political and legal life of the nation.Hate crimesUnited StatesPublic opinionGay peopleCrimes againstUnited StatesAfrican AmericansCrimes againstMass media and public opinionUnited StatesMass media and gay peopleUnited StatesMass media and race relationsUnited StatesMass mediaUnited StatesInfluenceHate crimesPublic opinion.Gay peopleCrimes againstAfrican AmericansCrimes against.Mass media and public opinionMass media and gay peopleMass media and race relationsMass mediaInfluence.070.4/493641523Petersen Jennifer1970-1820756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968476803321Murder, the media, and the politics of public feelings4383161UNINA