This book offers unique insights into how news media today make disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how globalization is affecting the meanings of disaster but also considers the continued relevance of nations and their citizens as interpretive frameworks.

Mervi Pantti is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is the co-author of (Peter Lang, 2012) and co-editor of (2011).

« , edited by Mervi Pantti of the University of Helsinki, brings together a variety of different viewpoints on the role of media in the conflict.» (Ray Niekamp, Electronic News Vol. 11(2) 2017) «As a Russian interdisciplinary scholar, whose work resonates with the content of the volume, I applaud to the attempt of the editor to give space and voice to different research traditions and to provoke further exploration of the mediatized warfare, hybrid media, and their mutual influence. At the height of the new Cold War, this book and the discussion it launched are very valuable and urgent.» (Olga Lazitski, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 1–3/2018)