ABSTRACT
Crises aremediatized at multiple levels. Substantial mediatization of public mourning and grief was initiated in, and via, the Norwegian, the Nordic and the global news media, as well as in social media. According to the International Middle East Media Center, altogether, there were 11 Swedish citizens on the boat, and among them members of parliament, activists, medical doctors, artists, academics and public intellectuals. In virtual ethnography research, the questions concerning the origin and authenticity of the media representation of the crisis become problematic. The most distinct feature of YouTube witnessing is visuality, especially concerning the moving image. On YouTube, one may watch a video of live footage taken from the helicopter, like the Breivik slaughtering in Utoya. Cultural geographer Doreen Massey states that places are 'constructed out of a particular constellation of social relations, meeting and weaving together at a particular locus'.
