"No more peace!" How disaster, terror and war have upstaged media events

Media Events in a Global Age

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 32-42

  Katz, Elihu ^a,b   Liebes, Tamar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203872604     Document Type: Chapter

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