Media, Terrorism, and Theory

Anandam P. Kavoori is associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Georgia. Todd Fraley is assistant professor of communication at East Carolina University.

• Part 1 Part 1: OrientationsChapter 2 1 Televising the "War on Terrorism": The Myths of MoralityChapter 3 2 Mediatizing the Global War on Terror: Television's Public EyePart 4 Part 2: Genres and ContextsChapter 5 3 Prime Time Terror: The Case of La Jetée and 12 MonkeysChapter 7 4 Mediated Terrorism in Comparative Perspective: Spanish Press Coverage of 9/11 vs. Coverage of Basque TerrorismChapter 8 5 National Politics of Belonging and Conflicting Masculinities: Race and the Representation of Recent WarsChapter 8 6 Terrorism and the Exploitation of New MediaPart 9 Part 3: Frames and ContextsChapter 10 8 Critical Media Theory, Democratic Communication, and Global ConflictChapter 11 9 Terrorism, Public Relations, and PropagandaChapter 12 10 September 11, Social Theory, and Democratic PoliticsChapter 13 11 International Communication after Terrorism: Towards a Postcolonial Dialectic

As terrible as terror is, our media coverage is at times almost as bad. Why is that? What can we do about it? To understand the world today, you need to know the role the media plays as it embeds itself in an unjust system of deception. We need this bold new reader to help us penetrate that story behind the story. It is essential.