Hybrid Media Events

Johanna Sumiala is Professor at the Department of Social Research/Media and Communication Studies, 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 Department of Social Research/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.

• Chapter 1. What are Hybrid Media Events of Terrorist Violence?Chapter 2. Creating a Media EventChapter 3. Actors and AffordancesChapter 4. AttentionChapter 5. AffectChapter 6. Liveness and Acceleration of CirculationChapter 7. Charlie Hebdo and the Circulation of Terrorist Violence in a Hybrid Media Event

The authors use the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris in 2015 to examine how things, ideas, ideologies, and values emerge and impact the media through circulation, and the dimensions of the hybrid media environment that play a role, including professional, journalistic, and social media, blurring lines between production and consumption and creating an endless circulation of texts, visuals, and meanings. They contend that the attacks need to be understood as a global media event in a line of terrorist incidents since 9/11 and that contemporary media events of terrorist violence play out in specific ways because of the contemporary hybrid media environment. They emphasize the relationship between the different actors, messages, and platforms that contribute to the making of a media event through mass media, internet-based, and mobile communication technologies and the elements of actors, affordance, attention, affect, and acceleration, focusing on specific events and messages circulating on Twitter.