Media, Terrorism, and Theory

A Reader

Contributions by Simon Cottle, Marion Herz, Douglas Kellner UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democra, Bruce Klopfenstein, Teresa La Porte, Elli Lester Roushanzamir, Teresa Sádaba, Antje Schuhmann University of the Witwatersrand, Nancy Snow, Daya Kishan Thussu Edited by Anandam P. Kavoori, Todd Fraley

Publication date:

30 January 2006

Length of book:

220 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

238x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742536302

Over the past few years, coverage of terror attacks has featured prominently in numerous media outlets. Drawing on both popular and academic articles, the essays in Media, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader analyze the larger issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism, including terrorism as a media event, war and media, nationalism and media, public responsibility, and journalistic accountability. Renowned contributors from around the world explore these issues as they relate to a global community. From such diverse fields as cultural studies, political science, media studies, architecture, and information science, each brings a distinctive perspective. Answering a growing need to understand media discourse on terrorism, Media, Terrorism, and Theory complements readings in upper-level mass communication courses and will appeal to students and scholars of international media and terrorism.

Part 1 Part 1: Orientations
Chapter 2 1 Televising the "War on Terrorism": The Myths of Morality
Chapter 3 2 Mediatizing the Global War on Terror: Television's Public Eye
Part 4 Part 2: Genres and Contexts
Chapter 5 3 Prime Time Terror: The Case of La Jetée and 12 Monkeys
Chapter 7 4 Mediated Terrorism in Comparative Perspective: Spanish Press Coverage of 9/11 vs. Coverage of Basque Terrorism
Chapter 8 5 National Politics of Belonging and Conflicting Masculinities: Race and the Representation of Recent Wars
Chapter 8 6 Terrorism and the Exploitation of New Media
Part 9 Part 3: Frames and Contexts
Chapter 10 8 Critical Media Theory, Democratic Communication, and Global Conflict
Chapter 11 9 Terrorism, Public Relations, and Propaganda
Chapter 12 10 September 11, Social Theory, and Democratic Politics
Chapter 13 11 International Communication after Terrorism: Towards a Postcolonial Dialectic

As terrible as terror is, our media coverage is at times almost as bad. Why is that? What can we do about it? To understand the world today, you need to know the role the media plays as it embeds itself in an unjust system of deception. We need this bold new reader to help us penetrate that story behind the story. It is essential.