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Anne Graefer Edited by Media and the Politics of Offence Anne Graefer Editor Media and the Politics of Offence Editor Anne Graefer Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research Birmingham City University Birmingham, UK ISBN 978-3-030-17573-3 ISBN 978-3-030-17574-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17574-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Cover image: stilllifephotographer/Getty images Cover design by eStudioCalamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements The idea to this book emerged out of a prior project on offence that I have conducted with Ranjana Das (2015–2017). Like so many other books, it changed significantly from the first draft that was euphorically discussed and written in Bedford, up until the final stages that I am concluding in Munich. I am extremely thankful to the authors of this volume for bearing with me through the different stages, and for shar- ing their inspiring ideas, their words and their energy at a time when, at least in the UK, the ‘REF-ability’ of book chapters is questioned and academic staff is encouraged to prioritise other forms of knowledge pro- duction. All contributors for this volume have been nothing short of fan- tastic, and I am forever grateful for this. I would also like to thank the numerous reviewers who carefully read and reread specific book chapters of this collection, giving thoughtful feedback and input to the authors. Hazel Collie, Gemma Commane, Kirsten Forkert, Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore, Allaina Kilby, John Mercer and Karen Patel have been amazing colleagues at my former workplace, thank you so much for your support and solidarity. Not only for this project but also for countless other reasons, I am forever indebted to my dear friend and colleague Suzan Meryem Kalayci whose kindness, generous support and sheer endless creativity, continuously encourage me to be courageous. Special thanks to Carolyn Pedwell for her thought-provoking work on affect and her feedback on the introduction of this book. I am also grateful to Jean Morris for her thorough copyediting, Antje Helch for her proficient help with the cover of this book, as well as v vi ACKNOwLEDGEMENTS Mala Sanghera-warren and Lucy Batrouney from Palgrave for their generous support, patience and editorial advice. The biggest thank you goes, as always, to my partner Jon who, with great sensitivity and unwavering commitment, believes in me and supports me—in true feminist fashion. This book is dedicated to Finn and Tate, with my ridiculous love. c ontents 1 Introduction to Media and the Politics of Offence 1 Anne Graefer Part I Offence, Politics and Protest 2 Political Offensiveness in the Mediated Public Sphere: The Performative Play of Alignments 23 Martin Montgomery, Michael Higgins and Angela Smith 3 Creating an Emotional Community: The Negotiation of Anger and Resistance to Donald Trump 47 Karin wahl-Jorgensen 4 Unruly Women and Carnivalesque Counter-Control: Offensive Humor in Mediated Social Protest 65 Anne Graefer, Allaina Kilby and Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore 5 Changing Visual Politics in South Africa: Old and New Modes of Exclusion, Protest and Offence 91 Marietta Kesting vii viii CONTENTS Part II Offence, Representations and Popular Culture 6 Other Bodies Within Us: Shock, Affect and Reality Television Audiences 109 Jacob Johanssen 7 ‘Period Sex’: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Feminist Politics of Offence 127 Katrin Horn 8 Fans at Work: Offence as Motivation for Critical Vidding 147 Sebastian F. K. Svegaard Part III Offence, Media Ethics and Regulation 9 Blocked Access: When Pornographers Take Offence 165 Susanna Paasonen 10 Regulatory Expectations of Offended Audiences: The Citizen Interest in Audience Discourse 187 Ranjana Das and Anne Graefer 11 Negotiating Vulnerability in the Trigger Warning Debates 207 Katariina Kyrölä 12 Gruesome Images in the Contemporary Israeli Mediated Public Sphere 233 Tal Morse Index 253 l c ist of ontributors Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore Independent Researcher, Oslo, Norway Ranjana Das Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK Anne Graefer Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK Michael Higgins Senior Lecturer Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Katrin Horn Assistant Professor in American Studies, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany Jacob Johanssen Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, UK Marietta Kesting Junior Professor of Media Theory, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, Germany Allaina Kilby Lecturer in Media & Communication, Swansea University, Swansea, UK Katariina Kyrölä Lecturer in Media Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Martin Montgomery Professor at the Department of English, University of Macau, Zhuhai, China ix x LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Tal Morse Instructor in Media Ethics, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel Susanna Paasonen Professor of Media Studies, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Angela Smith Professor of Language and Culture, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK Sebastian F. K. Svegaard Doctoral Student, Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Professor at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK