Our ground zeros: diaspora, media, memory

Gillespie, Marie (2011). Our ground zeros: diaspora, media, memory. In: Zelizer, Barbie and Allan, Stuart eds. Journalism After September 11 (2nd ed). Communications and Society. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 2252–271.

URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/97804154601...

Abstract

This article focuses on responses to the mediation of the the attacks of 11 September 2001 among diasporic audiences in the UK. Based on an a collaborative media ethnography that interlinked analysis of news images and discourses in an array of transnational television news channels, it explores the comparativist frames of references deployed by audiences to make sense of the attacks - captured in the phrase 'our ground zeros'. It is argued that while a comparative stance does not morally relativise the tragedy of the attacks, it does provoke a challenge to westernised conceptions of the causes, consequences and meanings of the attacks.

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• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-415-46015-8, 978-0-415-46015-6
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• Extra Information
• This chapter was commissioned by the editors and written especially for a revised second edition to commemorate 10th anniversary of the attacks
• Keywords
• media and 9/11; transnational television news; diaspora audiences; collaborative ethnography; diaspora, media and memory
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Sociology
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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• © 2011 Marie Gillespie
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• Marie Gillespie