Communicating Terror
Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism argues that the meaning of terrorism is socially constructed and suggests a new definition of terrorism, chiefly as a process of communication—between terrorists and multiple target audiences. Concise yet comprehensive, this text examines how acts of "terrorism" create rhetorical acts: What messages, persuasive meanings, symbols, do acts of terrorism generate and communicate to the world at large? These rhetorical components include...
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In response to the 9-11 attack, and to the effect it had on his communications students and other people, Tuman (political and legal communications, San Francisco State U.) explores what was changed that had not been changed by earlier attacks. Terrorism is a communication process with rhetorical dimensions, he explains, and looks at where public discourse affects and is affected by defining and labeling of terror, the symbolic meaning of terrorism, public oratory about terror, and the interaction of terrorism and mass media. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceIntroduction1The Struggle to Define Terrorism12Terrorism as a Communication Process With Rhetorical Dimensions173Labeling and Defining Terrorism as Rhetoric314Symbols, Symbolism, and Terrorism475Public Oratory About Terrorism696Mass-Mediated Images and Construction of Terrorism115Index149About the Author157
