Early Modern Media and the News in Europe

Capturing Extraordinary Multisensory Experiences in Writing: Reports on Natural Disasters in an 18th Century Newspaper Corpus

“…The event, which happened on November 1st 1755, garnered international attention and news about it spread far beyond the borders of the directly affected regions, as already discussed in various studies, e.g. by Breidert (1994), Löffler (1999), Lauer andUnger (2008), Rigby (2015), Koopmans (2018), andKotschar (2021). Rigby (2015, p. 26), similar to Borsch and Carrara (2016, p. 2) and Borsch (2018, p. 20), argues that the significant media reaction to earthquakes is rooted in their fundamental nature:…”

Negative Image Formation in Brazilian Political Discourse

“…Today, media are discussed in the context of modern information technologies which facilitate the process of communication and their growing importance in the domains of economic, social and any human activity (Koopmans, 2018). The crucial role of media is also stressed by O"Keeffe (2011), who views media discourse as interactions that take place through a broadcast platform, whether spoken or written, in which the discourse is oriented to a non-present reader, listener or viewer.…”

Relatar la catástrofe en el Siglo de Oro

“…El aviso introductorio no solo parece justificar la veracidad anunciada por el título, sino que también declara el objetivo principal de una obra tan excepcional, es decir, el de corregir las inexactitudes de los vademécums precedentes, al asegurar que "las cosas" son diferentes, "assai diverse" 7 , con respecto a las referidas por 6 Sobre esta materia la bibliografía es abundantísima. A título identificativo se remite a Eisenstein (1980), Koopmans (2005), Bouza (2008), Chartier & Espejo Cala (eds. 2012), Ettinghausen (2015), Brendecke (2016).…”