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Hi everyone. I’m an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Smith College now! That happened since the last update of this webpage, then the page itself got weird and I couldn’t update it for a while. I still need to put up a new CV, but for now I’ll include a link from the…
I’m very honored to announce that Consuming Catastrophe has won the Recent Contribution Award from the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association. A list of previous award winners can be found here.
The book got another strong review, which you can find here. Here’s a brief quote: “Thorough research, thought-provoking ideas, and analyses of varied contemporary disasters make this book a useful read for students of disaster/crisis communication or media literacy.”
The book got a very thoughtful, thorough review in the latest issue of Contemporary Sociology. Here’s the link and a quote: The book’s greatest strength lies in its conceptual vocabulary and schema for theorizing the interplay among socially constructed media narratives, media technologies, the subjectivities and psychology of media consumers, and elite interests. The “empathetic…
I was interviewed and quoted pretty extensively for this piece on disaster tourism in the wake of the CA wine country fires. Here’s the link: https://www.seattlepi.com/living/article/fires-wine-country-north-bay-tourism-disaster-12390178.php?forceWeb=1
The book got a really thoughtful write up in the October 2017 issue of the Journal of Communication. Read it here. Here’s an excerpt: As it turns out, that distinction between sympathy and empathy is a key component of the compelling argument Recuber, a visiting assistant professor at Hamilton College, makes that the mass mediation…
The book got a nice little write-up in the journal Journalism. Here’s a link and an excerpt: “The book’s strength is in its narrative nature and ability to situate the studies around a similar thematic argument: narratives provide cultural context, which develops deeper understanding of the human condition (Creswell 2009: 70). People use the news…
Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster is available from Temple University Press, Amazon, Advanced Book Exchange, or as an audiobook (via Audible).
I’ve got two presentations coming up dealing with my new project on death and the digital self. This August I’ll be at the American Sociological Association’s Media Sociology pre-conference presenting a paper called “Death, Digital Selfhood, and the Social Construction of Wisdom in Blogs of the Terminally Ill.” Oh, I’ll also be moderating a cool…
I’ll be presenting some of my work on blogs of the terminally ill, part of a larger project on digital selfhood and digital afterlives, at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings in Philadelphia next month (Thursday, Feb. 23). I wrote a little bit about this research at Discover Society earlier this month, if you’d like…
Timothy Recuber 