Traces of Fukushima: Global Events, Networked Media and Circulating Emotions

✍ Scribed by Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius

Publisher: Springer Singapore; Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 163
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion. Through an ambitious and innovative combination of theoretical and methodological approaches, the book discusses how meanings, emotions and interpretations of disruptive events such as the Fukushima Daiichi disaster circulate and change over time and space in the global, contemporary hybrid media environment. Through its six multi-method empirical case studies from Japanese local newspapers to commemorative Tweets, the volume addresses questions of memory, trauma, expertise and nuclear politics in relation to the three key concepts of the book. The findings of this book provide new insights on research of disruptive media events in the contemporary hybrid media environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: Tracing the Meanings of Fukushima (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 1-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
Dealing with the Disaster: The Live Media Event (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 21-38
Temporal Affordances in the Networked Remembering of Fukushima (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 39-58
Front Matter ....Pages 59-59
Towards a Geography of Mediated Affect: Discursive Spaces and Emotional Dynamics (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 61-79
Social Media and Ambient Social Distance (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 81-98
Front Matter ....Pages 99-99
The Global Circulation of Affect: The Case of Iodide Tablets (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 101-117
Affective Entanglements of Expertise: The Finnish Case (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 119-135
Conclusion: Time, Space and Emotion in Tracing Fukushima (Katja Valaskivi, Anna Rantasila, Mikihito Tanaka, Risto Kunelius)....Pages 137-152
Back Matter ....Pages 153-156

✦ Subjects

Cultural and Media Studies; Media and Communication; Media Sociology; Globalization; Digital/New Media; Governance and Government

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