[Air-L] New book: Hybrid Media Events – The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global Circulation of Terrorist Violence

[Tikka, M Minttu T]

*New Book by Emerald Publishing*

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/Hybrid Media Events – The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global
Circulation of Terrorist Violence/

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What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what 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 response the attacks provoked
in the media audience. The authors pay special attention to the hybrid
dynamics between the different actors, platforms and messages in such
media events, explaining how global news media, political elites and
terrorists interact with ordinary media users in social media. The book
demonstrates how, for example, hashtags such as “Je suis Charlie”
circulate from one digital media platform to another and how emotions,
speed of communication and fight for attention all become hybridized in
digital media. All these elements, the authors argue, shape the ways in
which we make sense of global media events in the present digital age.


https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Hybrid-Media-Events/?k=9781787148529

The authors:

*Johanna Sumiala*is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology and
Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

*Katja Valaskivi*is Vice Dean for Research at Faculty of Communication
Sciences, and Research Director at Tampere Research Centre for
Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET), University of Tampere.

*Minttu Tikka*is a Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences/Media
and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki.

*Jukka Huhtamäki*Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory at Tampere
University of Technology, TUT, is a Co-founder of Innovation Ecosystems
Network.



With best regards from Finland,

Minttu Tikka
Grant Researcher
Media and Communication Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
P.O. Box 54, 00014 University of Helsinki
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