Introduction: disasters and the media: why now?
Perspectives on disasters: globalization, citizenship, and emotion
Media and disasters in a global age
The geopolitics of disaster coverage
Emotional discourses in disaster news
Making disasters mean and politically matter
Producing news, witnessing disasters
Compassion, nation and cosmopolitan imagination
Disaster citizenship and the assumption of state responsibility
Anger and accountability in disaster news
Transformations in disaster visibility
Conclusion.