Brigitte L. Nacos - Mass-Mediated Terrorism : The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism download book EPUB, DOC, PDF
9781442247611 English 1442247614 The way Al Qaeda staged the 9/11 attacks to guarantee most spectacular global news coverage, how authorities and publics, as well as how bin Laden and his terrorist organizations communicated their responses were important parts of the first edition s descriptions, explanations, and analyses (2002). When the second edition was published in 2007, changes in the domestic and international mainstream media landscapes and changed media values were reflected in revised chapters as was the increased use of web sites, mobile phones, and emails by terrorist groups and individuals. Although the Internet was added to the visual depiction of the terrorist communication scheme, the book needs to be completely revised and rewritten. Social media as we know it today did not yet exist when both editions were published. There were no YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. These have become major vehicles of mass-self-communication that allow all kinds of political actors to circumvent the gatekeepers of the conventional mass media. Terrorist organizations and their supporters use these communication means to publicize their propaganda by deed and wage psychological warfare or, better, terrorfare. Social media, sophisticated video productions, and e-magazines have drastically expanded the audiences for transnational and domestic groups that carry out and/or support terrorism and provide know-how for individuals and groups susceptible to recruitment appeals. Most of all, the Internet with all its features facilitates inspirational terrorist contagion in that strong groups and their leaders (e.g., AQAP, ISIS, Boko Haram) inspire predisposed individuals via the content of their Internet-based messages to join the cause. Where terrorist recruitment was a direct person-to-person process in the past, it is today overwhelmingly taken place via mass communication, mostly via the Internet. The shift of command and operations from Al Qaeda Central to a multitude of groups devoted to Jihadist ideology, especially in the Middle East and Africa, is as well if not caused certainly facilitated by social media. The same is also the case for other religious as well as secular groups. Add to that the changes in mainstream media organizations with a shift from print to web site-based content as far as the print media are concerned with radio and television expanding Internet presence, too. The traditional media organizations are not only competing with each other but also with a multitude of pure e-publications. The result is the fiercest competition, efforts to come out first with whatever happens, and availability of the latest videos, still pictures, texts that may not have been scrutinized by experienced editors. This text provides an in-depth look at how terrorists and actors of political violence use mass media to recruit, inform, and publicize their deeds and messages."
9781442247611 English 1442247614 The way Al Qaeda staged the 9/11 attacks to guarantee most spectacular global news coverage, how authorities and publics, as well as how bin Laden and his terrorist organizations communicated their responses were important parts of the first edition s descriptions, explanations, and analyses (2002). When the second edition was published in 2007, changes in the domestic and international mainstream media landscapes and changed media values were reflected in revised chapters as was the increased use of web sites, mobile phones, and emails by terrorist groups and individuals. Although the Internet was added to the visual depiction of the terrorist communication scheme, the book needs to be completely revised and rewritten. Social media as we know it today did not yet exist when both editions were published. There were no YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. These have become major vehicles of mass-self-communication that allow all kinds of political actors to circumvent the gatekeepers of the conventional mass media. Terrorist organizations and their supporters use these communication means to publicize their propaganda by deed and wage psychological warfare or, better, terrorfare. Social media, sophisticated video productions, and e-magazines have drastically expanded the audiences for transnational and domestic groups that carry out and/or support terrorism and provide know-how for individuals and groups susceptible to recruitment appeals. Most of all, the Internet with all its features facilitates inspirational terrorist contagion in that strong groups and their leaders (e.g., AQAP, ISIS, Boko Haram) inspire predisposed individuals via the content of their Internet-based messages to join the cause. Where terrorist recruitment was a direct person-to-person process in the past, it is today overwhelmingly taken place via mass communication, mostly via the Internet. The shift of command and operations from Al Qaeda Central to a multitude of groups devoted to Jihadist ideology, especially in the Middle East and Africa, is as well if not caused certainly facilitated by social media. The same is also the case for other religious as well as secular groups. Add to that the changes in mainstream media organizations with a shift from print to web site-based content as far as the print media are concerned with radio and television expanding Internet presence, too. The traditional media organizations are not only competing with each other but also with a multitude of pure e-publications. The result is the fiercest competition, efforts to come out first with whatever happens, and availability of the latest videos, still pictures, texts that may not have been scrutinized by experienced editors. This text provides an in-depth look at how terrorists and actors of political violence use mass media to recruit, inform, and publicize their deeds and messages."