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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Trauma, Coping with Trauma, Trauma Therapy
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Dealing With the Past
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Collective Memory: Violent Conflicts & Wars
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Holocaust
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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Therapeutical Use of Communication & Media
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War & Political Violence in Cinema
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Genocides
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War Reporting
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Children: Media Representation & Reporting
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
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Children & Childhood
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Comics, Cartoons, Caricatures
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Political Cartoons & Comics
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Cinema
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Groups, Group Communication, Group Development
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Crime & Violence Reporting
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Foreign Conflict Reporting, International War Reporting
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Collective Memory: Disasters
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Journalism Ethics
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Refugees / Displaced People
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Therapeutical Writing, Memory Books
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Gaming: Uses & Effects
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Mobile Phone Use
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Conflict Coverage: Children's Books & Educational Materials
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Children's Books: Picture Books
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Solidarity
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Orphans
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Puppetry
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Celebrities, Idols, Stars
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Conflict Coverage: Cinema & Audiovisual Media
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Film and Religion, Religion in Motion Pictures
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Religious Films
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Documentaries, Television Documentaries, Web Documentaries
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Historical Films
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Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
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Crisis Communication
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Storytelling
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Perpetrators
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Reconciliation Work
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Conflict-Sensitive Radio Journalism, Radio in Conflict Prevention & Transformation
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Enemy Images
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Extremist Recruitment through Media
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Information Warfare, Psychological Warfare
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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War Propaganda, Propaganda in Conflicts
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Ritual Communication & Media Rituals
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Theatre
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Puppetry in Education
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Theatre for Development
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Fans, Fandom, Fan Cultures
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Literature
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Poetry
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Facebook
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Earthquakes, Floods, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters
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Gaming, Video Games
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Docudrama
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Television Fiction
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Television Serials
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Objectivity & Veracity of Reporting
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Good Practice Examples
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Counselling
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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Mental Health (General)
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Suicide Reporting & Media Representation
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First World War (1914-1918)
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Second World War (1939-1945)
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Foreign Correspondents
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Foreign News, International News
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Journalism Education & Training
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Print Journalism
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Court Reporting & Media Representation of Judicial System
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Forced Labour & Human Trafficking: Reporting & Media Representation
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Witnesses, Witness Testimonies
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Metaphors
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Forced Labour & Human Trafficking
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Human Rights Protection
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Transitional Justice
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BBC
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Conflict & War Photography
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Documentary Photography
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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Mental Stress
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Sorrow
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Afterlife, Immortality, Resurrection: Media Representation
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COVID-19 Pandemic & Religion
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Muslim Television Broadcasting
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Violence
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Minorities
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Resilience
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Al-Jazeera
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Reality Television Programmes & Daily Talks
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User-Generated Contents
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Visual Communication
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Drawing, Drawings
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Visualization
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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.
"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers ... more

How society cares for the dead – a matter of human dignity!

Berlin: German Commission for Justice and Peace (2024), 48 pp.
"This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their past and shape their future. The main objectiv ... more
"Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts. Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in ... more
"Es gibt kaum noch Zeitzeugen des Holocaust. Die letzten erzählen von ihrer Erinnerung als Kinder in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten und über die Verfolgung und Ermordung ihrer Familien. Um diese Erinnerungen vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren, haben die Zeichnerinnen Barara Yelin, Mir ... more

The Nanjing Massacre and the Making of Mediated Trauma

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 235 pp.
"Drawing on cultural trauma theory, this book investigates how collective memory of the Nanjing Massacre [by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945] is fashioned in China and how the mass media, political power and public praxis jointl ... more
"Über das Medium Computerspiel findet zunehmend eine Auseinandersetzung mit psychologischen Traumata statt. Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung, Krankheit und Tod sowie Depressionen und Phobien sind hierbei vorherrschende Themen und Motive. Thomas Spies zeigt in einem historischen Überblick und in ... more
"• Pressure has intensified on journalists to cover people’s trauma and distress and deliver emotionally-driven content to multiple platforms. • Impact on survivors: An ongoing lack of trauma-aware training for journalists can lead to inept or ill-informed handling of survivors, some say this ... more
"This article is a study of mourning among Shi’a Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic through a call-in talk show called #IAMHUSSEINI. By analyzing the discourses of callers and presenters and locating them within a visual context of the television studio, this article shows how the viewership of ... more
"Die Medienlandschaft behandelt täglich die Motive Sterben, Tod und Jenseits. Bilderbücher und Graphic Novels stehen bei diesen Themen meist nicht im Fokus, doch die Anzahl an entsprechenden Veröffentlichungen steigt stetig. Welche Bilder nutzen sie zur Darstellung der komplexen Thematik? Wie wir ... more
"This resource is a guide for how you can use story-sharing in your church programmes to address grief and stress. It includes practical ideas on how to run What’s Your Story? story-sharing exercises to help your church members." (Page 5)

All my Friends Live in My Computer: Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning

New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), xi, 157 pp.
"All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people ... more

Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media

Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press (2021), xiv, 408 pp.
"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are ... more
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship ... more
"If you have asked someone to cover a story for you, you have a legal and ethical duty of care to that person. The legal aspects may vary between jurisdictions, but increasingly courts are considering these issues and in at least one case (in Australia) have ruled against the news organization, in a ... more
"This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. Anna-Marie ... more

Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 205 pp.
Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy, professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma, distress or grief. Amid a growing demand and need for guidance, this fascinating book is refreshingly simple, engaging and ... more

Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age

Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2020), xv, 213 pp.
"The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: the legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife; the ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of ... more

The Digital Consumption of Death: Reflections on Virtual Mourning Practices on Social Networking Sites

In: The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption
Russell W. Belk; Rosa Llamas (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), pp. 396-403
"In exploring virtual mourning practices and their implications for death consumption in general, new questions in the field of consumer research emerge. It is hoped that once we gain some understanding of how online mourning practices illuminate notions of ‘materiality’ and/or ‘embodiment’ ... more