What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what kind of
purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book
addresses these questions by re-thinking media events in the
contemporary digital media environment saturated by intensified
circulation of radical violence. The empirical analyses draw on the
investigation of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, in 2015
and the global responses those attacks stirred in the media
audience. This book provides a new way of thinking about the idea
of the hybrid in global media events. The authors give special
emphasis to the hybrid dynamics between the different actors,
platforms and messages in such events, explaining how global news
media, terrorists and political elites interact with ordinary media
users in social media. It demonstrates how tweets such as "Je suis
Charlie" circulate from one digital media platform to another and
what kind of belongings are created in those circulations during
the times of distraction. In addition, the book examines how
emotions, speed of communication and fight for attention become
hybridized in the digital media. All these aspects, the authors
argue, shape the ways in which we make sense of global media events
in the present digital age. The authors invite readers to
critically reflect the technological, economical, political and
socio-cultural challenges connected with today's global media
events and the ethical encounters they may entail.
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