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Radicalisation and media : connectivity and terrorism in the new media ecology / Akil N. Awan, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Awan, Akil N., author.
- Series:
- Media, war and security.
- Media, war and security
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media.
- Communication and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (163 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence.There is a new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there appears to be emerging threats to security and stability in the shape of individuals and groups holding or espousing radical views about religion, ideology, often represented in the media as oppositional to Western values. This book asks what, if anything is new about these radicalising discourses, how and why they relat
- Contents:
- 1. Media and radicalisation : grappling uncertainties in the new media ecology
- radicalisation gone wild
- 2. Legitimising Jihadist ideology
- 3. Media Jihad
- 4. Media events : televisual connections 2004-2006
- 5. The mainstream nexus of radicalisation : the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict
- 6. Audience uncertainties : imagining the mainstream and extremes
- 7. Conclusion : the new media ecology model.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-81697-6
- 1-136-81698-4
- 1-283-04021-2
- 9786613040213
- 0-203-82967-0
- 9780203829677
- OCLC:
- 707067656
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