[ecrea] CSMC issue on ISIS, media, networked publics, terrorism

We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of 
Critical Studies in Media Communication that was guest-edited by Mehdi 
Semati and Piotr Szpunar. The issue is titled, "ISIS beyond the 
spectacle: Communication media, networked publics, terrorism." The issue 
offers a wide range of theoretical engagements with various authors and 
topics (e.g., Thanatopolitics, Horrorism, Situationist theory, 
Baudrillard...) and should be of interest to scholars in communication 
studies, terrorism, media theories, IR, geopolitics, new media, global 
communication and rhetorical criticism. The link to the issue and the 
table of contents are pasted below.
The introduction to the issue is available freely for download:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsm20/current
ISIS beyond the spectacle: Communication media, networked publics, terrorism
Mehdi Semati (Northern Illinois University) & Piotr Szpunar (University 
at Albany)

Cold War redux and the news: Islamic State and the U.S. through each 
other’s eyes
Barbie Zelizer, (University of Pennsylvania)

The communication of horrorism: A typology of ISIS online death videos 
Lilie Chouliaraki & Angelos Kissas (London School of Economics & 
Political Science)

Fun against Fear in the caliphate: Islamic State’s spectacle and 
counter-spectacle
Marwan. M. Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania)
One apostate run over, hundreds repented: Excess, unthinkability, and 
infographics of the war with ISIS
Rebecca A. Adelman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

The viral mediation of terror: ISIS, image, implosion
Ryan Artrip & Francois Debrix (Virginia Tech)

Deflating the Iconoclash: Shifting the focus from Islamic State’s 
iconoclasm to its realpolitik
Ben O’Loughlin, (University of London)

Apocalypse, later: A longitudinal study of the Islamic State brand
Charlie Winter (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and 
Political Violence)
Arguing with ISIS: Web 2.0, open source Journalism, and narrative disruption
Matt Sienkiewicz (Boston College)


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