Media, Crisis and Democracy: Mass Communication and the Disruption of Social Order

Introduction - Marc Raboy and Bernard Dagenais Media and the Politics of Crisis The Crisis of the Sovereign State - John Keane Media and the State in Periods of Crisis - Mustapha Masmoudi Television, the Crisis of Democracy and the Persian Gulf War - Douglas Kellner Framing the Crisis in Eastern Europe - Julian Halliday, Sue Curry Jansen and James Schneider Media and the Terminal Crisis of Communism in Poland - Karol Jakubowicz Violence and Terror in and by the Media - George Gerbner Crisis as Spectacle - Peter A Bruck Tabloid News and the Politics of Outrage Media in Crises - Bernard Dagenais Observers, Actors or Scapegoats? Media and the Invisible Crisis of Everyday Life - Marc Raboy Media and the Commodification of Crisis - Lorna Roth On New Uses of Media in Time of Crisis - Armand Mattelart and Mich[gr]ele Mattelart