Television's coverage of the tragic events of September 11 can be viewed and understood as a paradigmatic disaster marathon. The salience of the attack's visual images, their exclusivity on the screen for a protracted period, and the invisibility of their perpetrators enhanced the attack's...

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The Toronto School and Communication Research -- Introduction: Innis, McLuhan and the Toronto School -- Part I: Interpretations -- 1. Between Essentialism and Constructivism: Harold Innis and World Order Transformations -- 2. "The Significance...