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Covering bin Laden : global media and the world's most wanted man /

Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipulation on a par with military, political, and ideological tools, and intentionally used interviews, taped speeches, and distributed statements to further...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jeffords, Susan, 1953- (Editor ), Al-Sumait, Fahed Yahya (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: After bin Laden / Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait
  • Bin Laden's ghost and the epistemological crises of counterterrorism / Richard Jackson
  • The discursive portrayals of Osama bin Laden / Aditi Bhatia
  • The bin Laden tapes / Andrew Hill
  • Words and war: Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda / Courtney C. Radsch
  • Metaphorizing terrorism: Al Qaeda in German and British tabloids / Alexander Spencer
  • The myth of the terrorist as a lover: competing regional media frames / Noha Mellor
  • Images of our dead enemies: visual representations of bin Laden, Hussein, and el-Qaddafi / Susan Moeller, Joanna Nurmis, and Saranaz Barforoush
  • Without Osama: Tere bin Laden and the critique of the War on Terror / Purnima Bose
  • Obama bin Laden [sic]: how to win the War on Terror #likeaboss / Ryan Croken
  • Congratulations! You have killed Osama bin Laden!! / Simon Ferrari
  • Muslims in America and the post-9/11 terrorism debates: media and public opinion / Brigitte L. Nacos
  • Epilogue: After bin Laden: Zero Dark Thirty / Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait.