[ecrea] New Book - Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

Source: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book236751

*Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives*
edited by Des Freedman (Goldsmiths) and Daya Kishan Thussu (University 
of Westminster)
336 pages, SAGE, released on 19 December 2011

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 unleashing of a 'war on terror'?

Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the 
world's media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism 
and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and 
user-friendly with lively and current case studies, it is a perfect 
student text and is an essential handbook on the dynamics of war and the 
media in a global context.

/Acts of political violence, including terroristic violence, come in 
different forms, in different parts of the world and perpetrated by 
different sorts of actors (states, military, insurgents, individuals) 
who can be motivated by different interests and identities. In today's 
media environment, the relation between terrorism and media is often no 
less complex or politically consequential. Historically momentous and 
deadly as the so-called 'global war on terror' has proved to be, it does 
not exhaust the complexities of media and terror or their interactions 
around the world. Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives intelligently 
and incisively broadens the discussion, situating it within contexts of 
global inequality and geopolitical interests, contemporary media 
environments and strategic and symbolic politics/
Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communications, Cardiff University

*Table of contents
*
Introduction: Dynamics of Media and Terrorism     Des Freedman and Daya 
Kishan Thussu
(this chapter is available as sample content from 
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/45141_Freedman_and_Thussu.pdf )

PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: 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 FOUR: 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