Media and terrorism global perspectives

Have the media contributed to exacerbating the political, cultural and religious divides within Western societies and the world at large? How can media be deployed to enrich, not inhibit, dialogue? To what extent has the media, in all its forms, questioned, celebrated or simply accepted the unleashi...

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Other Authors: Freedman, Des, Thussu, Daya Kishan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : dynamics of media and terrorism / Des Freedman and Daya Kishan Thussu
  • Part 1: Contexts. Terror, war and disjunctures in the global order / Lena Jayyusi
  • Media, war and information technology / Christian Fuchs
  • Public diplomacy versus terrorism / Philip Seib
  • Propaganda and terrorism / David Miller and Rizwaan Sabir
  • Part 2: Global representations of terrorism. Terrorism and global popular culture / Toby Miller
  • Hollywood, the CIA and the 'War on Terror' / Oliver Boyd-Barrett, David Herrera and Jim Baumann
  • Terror, culture and anti-Muslim racism / Gholam Khiabany and Milly Williamson
  • Pictures and public relations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Greg Philo
  • Part 3: Terrorism on the home front. South Asia and the frontline of the 'War on Terror' / Daya Kishan Thussu
  • Covering terrorism in Russian media / Elena Vartanova and Olga Smirnova
  • WikiLeaks and war laws / Stig A. Nohrstedt and Rune Ottosen
  • Television and immigration in France / Tristan Mattelart
  • The 'War on Terror' in Arab media / Helga Tawil-Souri
  • Part 4: Journalists and the 'War on Terror'. Terrorism and news narratives / Justin Lewis
  • Asylum seekers as political spectacle / Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick and Alex Russell
  • Media myth and ground reality in reporting from Iraq / Dahr Jamail
  • Challenging the media war / Danny Schechter.