How do the representations of death, in texts and visual presentations, produce journalistic audience? The data for the study comprised all the journalistic news material having something to do with death and published in two Finnish evening newspapers Ilta-Sanomat and Iltalehti between the end of January 2004 and the beginning of February 2005. The research material includes headlines, texts, pictures and other visual presentations on death appearing in the news.
The main framework of the study rises from the discussion within psychoanalysis, cultural studies and political sciences. The subject theory of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is one of the main starting points. The main research question is, how has the subject been produced in postmodern culture in representations of death and bereavement.