Terror Post 9/11 and the Media
Throughout the world, the mass media are responsible for shaping the form and content of experiences. In this book, the author examines how the mass media, including news and popular culture, have cast terrorism, propaganda and social control post 9/11. He shows how fear works with terrorism to alter discourse, social meanings, and our sense of being in the world. He places emphasis on the different institutional interventions and how these particular stories become framed and inform the...
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Throughout the world, the mass media are responsible for shaping the form and content of experiences. In this book, the author examines how the mass media, including news and popular culture, have cast terrorism, propaganda and social control post 9/11. He shows how fear works with terrorism to alter discourse, social meanings, and our sense of being in the world. He places emphasis on the different institutional interventions and how these particular stories become framed and inform the wider media narratives of terror. Altheide argues that post 9/11 we are witnessing the emergence of new communication formats that not only constitute counter-narratives, but also shape future communicative experience. The text is suitable for scholars and students interested in the ongoing relationship between the media and terror post 9/11.
Global Crises and the Media1 Introduction 12 Terrorism and Propaganda 193 Terrorism and the Politics of Fear 424 Terrorism and the Problem of Evidence 645 Terrorism as Moral Panic 996 The Columbine Shootings and Terrorism 1177 Terrorism Programming 1348 The Terrorism Narrative and Mediated Evil 150References 183Index 203
