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First published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the
key scenes in the drama unfolding in the aftermath of the Pan Am
103 explosion: Lockerbie, visited by an estimated 1000 journalists
in the month following the disaster; New York's Kennedy Airport,
where families learned in the presence of the media that their
loved ones had perished; Syracuse University, plunged into mourning
the loss of 35 students from the school's study abroad programme;
and homes on both sides of the Atlantic, grief-stricken as news
reached relatives of the passengers and crew. The authors,
professors of communication at Syracuse University with years of
media experience, began looking at the effects of such coverage
because of what they experienced when the media came to cover the
grieving on their campus. What they learned in the U.S. and the
U.K. will interest those concerned about media coverage of crisis
events, as well as those who communicate about them: journalists,
survivors, public information officers, public relations
practitioners, emergency support personnel, business and political
leaders.
SARS from East to West is the production of international
collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new
millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious
disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of
an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and
interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent
pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.
Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together crisis management
scholars with genuine knowledge of the geographic area covered in
each of the chapters to examine the response to the SARS crisis at
national and international levels, as well as media analysis.
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