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Winner in the Multicultural Non-Fiction category in the 2020 International Book Awards (Los Angeles)
Awarded Third Place President’s Faculty Book Award for 2020-2021 at Texas Tech University
Uses communication theories as conceptual frameworks for analyzing satirical journalism and satire of religion in culture-specific journalistic paradigms, the problem of blasphemy, and the applicability of the human right of freedom of expression to culture-specific cartoons and caricatures in our globalized society
Investigates how specific media outlets that operate in our interconnected system of global journalistic cultures justified their decisions to republish or not to republish Charlie Hebdo’s post terrorist attack edition that featured the Je Suis Charlie Mohammed cartoon cover
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Case Studies in Journalism and Comparative Establishmentalities
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a multifaceted case study that describes and explains sameness and difference in diverse journalistic conceptualizations of the Charlie Hebdo affair from a comparative, international perspective. It explores how different journalistic traditions, cultures, worldviews and styles conceptualized and reacted to the clash between freedom of expression and respect for religious sentiments in the context of terrorism, where those sentiments are imposed on the media and secular societies through intimidation, coercion and violence. The book analyzes the political and cultural clashes between the core human right of freedom of expression, and rite of respect for religious sentiments, which is situated on the outer periphery of the human right of freedom of religion. It also examines how media outlets, editors, and cartoonists from different politico-cultural contexts and journalistic cultures in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, addressed the delicate issue of Mohammed cartoons in general, and the problem of (re)publication of the controversial Charlie Hebdo Je Suis Charlie Mohammed cartoon, in particular.
Authors and Affiliations
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Journalism and Creative Media, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Lyombe Eko
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Charlie Hebdo Affair and Comparative Journalistic Cultures
Book Subtitle: Human Rights Versus Religious Rites
Authors: Lyombe Eko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18079-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18078-2Published: 25 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18081-2Published: 25 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18079-9Published: 14 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 452
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Journalism, Media and Communication, Global/International Culture, Media Policy