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Television and Terror

Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse

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  • © 2007

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  1. Andrew Hoskins

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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  2. Ben O’Loughlin

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: New Security Challenges (NSECH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 1-21

  3. Television and Time

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 22-52

  4. Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of the ‘CNN Effect’

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 53-73

  5. Talking Terror: Political Discourses and the 2003 Iraq War

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 74-98

  6. Television’s Quagmire: The Misremembered and the Unforgotten

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 99-117

  7. The Distant Body

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 118-138

  8. Drama and Documentary: The Power of Nightmares

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 139-160

  9. Security and Publics: Democratic Times?

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 161-186

  10. The Irresolution of Television

    • Andrew Hoskins, Ben O’Loughlin
    Pages 187-192

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 193-217
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About this book

The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.

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'... 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

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Andrew Hoskins

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Ben O’Loughlin

About the authors

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.

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