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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814612203321

Titolo

Media, war, and terrorism : responses from the Middle East and Asia / / edited by Peter Van Der Veer and Shoma Munshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-32371-9

1-134-32372-7

0-203-68477-X

1-280-02520-4

0-203-39250-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Classificazione

05.30

Altri autori (Persone)

VeerPeter van der

MunshiShoma

Disciplina

070.4/4935502

Soggetti

Mass media and war

Terrorism and mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction / Peter van der Veer -- 2. War propaganda and the liberal public sphere / Peter van der Veer -- 3. The West and the rest: a drama in two acts and an epilogue / Larry Gross and Sasha Costanza-Chock -- 4. Television in America from 9/11 and America's continuing 'War on Terror': single theme, multiple media lenses / Shoma Munshi -- 5. The Middle East's democracy deficit and the expanding public sphere / Dale F. Eickelman -- 6. Political Islam in Iran and the emergence of a religious public sphere: the impact of September 11 / Mahmoud Alinejad -- 7. September 11 and after: pressure for regulation and self-regulation in the Indian media / Manoj Joshi -- 8. The Jewish hand: the response of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind / Irfan Ahmad -- 9. The WTC tragedy and the U.S. attack on Afghanistan: the press joins in beating the war drums / Tjahjo Purnomo Wijadi -- 10. War, words, and images / Goenawan Mohamad -- 11. When Osama and friends came a-calling: the political deployment of the overdetermined image of Osama ben Laden in the contestation for Islamic symbols in Malaysia/ Farish A. Noor -- 12. Some 'Muslims' within: watching



television in Britain after September 11 / Asu Aksoy.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals with the use of the media as an instrument of warfare, the growing significance of religion, the emergence of transnational media and a transnational public sphere and the relationship between the West and the rest of the world. The second part of the book contains nine case studies relating to different parts of the Middle East and Asian world, all with a strong empirical focus, while at the same