A. Hoskins

Television and Terror

Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Yet, the principle mass news medium of television has become torn between strategies of containment and the amplification of security threats. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.

Produktdetails

• New Security Challenges
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22902-0
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780230229020
• ISBN-10: 0230229026
• Artikelnr.: 26244761

Autorenporträt

Author Andrew Hoskins: Andrew Hoskins is Director of the Adam Smith Research Foundation. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical investigation of today s new media ecology and the nature of/challenges for security, and individual, social and cultural memory in this environment. He has an established record of leading externally funded empirical research into the shifting relations between media, war and terrorism, media and radicalisation, and media and memory. His current work explores the relationship between connectivity, risk, and memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The (Terrorised) State we're in Introduction Television and Time Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of the 'CNN Effect' Talking Terror: Political Discourses and the 2003 Iraq War Television's Quagmire: The Misremembered and the Unforgotten The Distant Body Drama and Documentary: The Power of Nightmares Security and Publics: Democratic Times? The Irresolution of Television

Rezensionen

'... the strength of this book lies in its ability to communicate important ideas from media studies to a broad audience of scholars interested in media discourse... Television and Terror effectively describes how television news, through the mediatization of events, works to constitute the social reality in which we live... In particular, it provides fodder for the argument that television can itself be hijacked as a weapon of terror as television news increasingly mediatizes events that take place in today's world.'

- Adam Hodges, Stanford University