Studies in Terrorism: Media Scholarship and the Enigma of Terror

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Studies in Terrorism
Media Scholarship
and the Enigma of Terror

Edited by Naren Chitty, Ramona R. Rush
and Mehdi Semati

Publisher: Southbound in association
with the Journal of International Communication
Published in 2003
ISBN-10: 983-9054-38-4
ISBN-13: 978-983-9054-38-5
EAN: 9789839054385
186 pages.14 X 21.5 cm.
Paperback: US$20

This book is the result of a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of International Communication sent out after the attack on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. The contributions which were selected for publication include:

•	Introduction: Subject(s) of terrorism and media by Naren Chitty
•	Terrorism and freedom as oppositional forces: Origins and evolution in presidential discourse by Carol Winkler
•	After September 11: Public concern over threat, foreign policy attitudes, and decisions on going to war by Fang Yang and Ronald E. Ostman
•	Doubt foreclosed: US mainstream media and the attacks of September 11, 2001 by Oliver Boyd-Barrett
•	The alarm function of mass communication: A critical case study of "The Plot Against America, a special edition of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" by Julia R. Fox
•	Beyond the televised endgame? Addressing the long-term consequences of global media inequality by Nick Couldry
•	Fight the good fight with all your might: The US, us and them by Annabelle Mooney
•	The past as prologue: Osama bin Laden, the embassy bombings, and the ideological origins of America's "War on Terrorism" by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr
•	Free speech implications in the wake of September 11 by Amy Reynolds and Brooke Barnett
•	Indymedia and "enduring freedom": An exploration of sources, perspectives and "news" in an alternative internet project by Chris Atton

Contents of the book

•	Introduction: Subject(s) of terrorism and media by Naren Chitty

•	Terrorism and freedom as oppositional forces: Origins and evolution in presidential discourse by Carol Winkler

	•	Pre-Reagan era
	•	Reagan's first term
	•	Reagan's second term
	•	Conclusion

•	After September 11: Public concern over threat, foreign policy attitudes, and decisions on going to war by Fang Yang and Ronald E. Ostman

	•	International image, threat perception and mass foreign policy attitudes
	•	Protection motivation theory, concern over threat, and public foreign policy attitudes
	•	Data and methods
	•	Concern over threats
	•	Importance assessment of policy choices
	•	Confidence in American capability
	•	Support for war
	•	Analysis and results
	•	Predicting importance evaluation of policies reducing threats
	•	Predicting support for military action
	•	Predicting public support of war
	•	Conclusions

•	Doubt foreclosed: US mainstream media and the attacks of September 11, 2001 by Oliver Boyd-Barrett

•

Introduction

•

Initial discourses

•

Media strategies

01	Mass mobilisation
02	Vilification of culprit
03	Ignoring alternative sources of culpability
04	The great sell of a 'wartime' president
05	Neglect or manipulation of history
06	Abandonment of journalistic curiosity
07	Assimilating administration propaganda and compliance with controls

•

Conclusion

•	The alarm function of mass communication: A critical case study of "The Plot Against America, a special edition of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" by Julia R. Fox

	•	Functional analysis
	•	Critical case study: "The Plot Against America: A Special Edition of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw"
	•	The alarm function of mass communication

•	Beyond the televised endgame? Addressing the long-term consequences of global media inequality by Nick Couldry

	•	Introduction
	•	Refiguring what we know
	•	Recharging the debate on the global media landscape
	•	Reduction or intensification?

•	Fight the good fight with all your might: The US, us and them by Annabelle Mooney

•

Introduction

01	You, me, us and the war Applause Dialogue "He do the Police in Different Voices" and "The Waste Land
02	Structure
03	I am the law Speech acts "Let those who have ears . . ." Issue number 1: "Act of war" Issue number 2 - War happens between states Issue number 3 - State responsibility by association Issue number 4 - Is it appropriate self-defence? Issue number 5 - Does international law even apply? Issue number 6 - Why not use the legal frame?
04	Religion
05	Conclusion: convergence and oppression

•	The past as prologue: Osama bin Laden, the embassy bombings, and the ideological origins of America's "War on Terrorism" by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr

	•	Central Asian politics, Taliban 'freedom fighters' and the Afghan wars against foreign aggression
	•	How does Osama bin Laden fit into this picture?
	•	The embassy bombings and American representations of Osama bin Laden
	•	Conclusion

•	Free speech implications in the wake of September 11 by Amy Reynolds and Brooke Barnett

	•	Historical treatment of dissent
	•	Terrorism, congressional legislation and free speech
	•	USA Patriot Act
	•	Response to the USA Patriot Act
	•	Access to information
	•	Access to information after September 11
	•	Conclusion

•	Indymedia and "enduring freedom": An exploration of sources, perspectives and "news" in an alternative internet project by Chris Atton

	•	Introduction
	•	Background to Indymedia
	•	Indymedia as communicative democracy
	•	Indymedia and September 11
	•	Analytical categories
	•	Intellectuals and mainstream radicals
	•	Native reporters and contributions from groups
	•	Alternative sources
	•	Mainstream and official sources
	•	Making sense to readers
	•	Conclusions

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