05663nam 2200685 a 450 991082662560332120240417021959.01-84964-463-21-281-75094-897866117509471-4356-6264-4(CKB)1000000000533644(StDuBDS)AH22933751(SSID)ssj0000189132(PQKBManifestationID)11179639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189132(PQKBWorkID)10156181(PQKB)10468067(MiAaPQ)EBC3386523(Au-PeEL)EBL3386523(CaPaEBR)ebr10480161(CaONFJC)MIL175094(OCoLC)666933170(EXLCZ)99100000000053364420060524d2005 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLanguage wars the role of media and culture in global terror and political violence /Jeff Lewis1st ed.London ;Ann Arbor, Mich. Pluto Press20051 online resource (296 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-2484-3 0-7453-2485-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Terrorism and Language Wars -- The Mediation of Terror -- Culture and the Political Signifier -- Cultural Politics and Globalization -- Government, Democracy and the Mediasphere -- Structure and Methods -- Key Concepts -- 1 Mediated Terror and the Politics of Representation -- Terror -- Televisual Media and the Broadcast of Violence -- Representation and Violence -- The First Casualty: War and Truth -- Conclusions -- 2 Conflict and Culture: Civilization, History, Identity -- Culture and Islam -- The Clash of Civilizations Thesis -- The Media and Cultural Division -- Division and Identity Politics -- History and the Roots of Islam -- Modernization and Civil Society in the Middle East -- Palestine and the 'Jewish Question' -- The Body Politic: Interface with Globalization -- Interdependence and the Formation of the Cultural Divide -- Conclusions -- 3 The Meaning of 9/ 11: In the Midst of Infi nite Justice -- Meaning and the Aesthetics of Terror -- Divine Justice: Global Order -- Citizens, Consensus and Dissent -- Hero - Victims -- Public Opinion and the Not- Quite- Real -- The Meaning of America and the Twin Towers -- Freedom -- Surveillance and Control -- Conclusions -- 4 The Iraq Invasion: Democracy in the Field of Battle -- The Purposes of War -- From Freedom to Democracy -- Coalitions of the Killing -- Democracy in the Age of Terror -- The Electronic Polis -- Bomb the World -- In Bed with al- Qa'ida -- Al- Jazeera and the Alternative Media -- Conclusions -- 5 Globalizing Jihad: The Bali Bombings at the End of Paradise -- October 12 and Global Jihad -- Jamaah Islamiyah -- Paradise Defi led -- Clash of Imaginings: Global and National Context -- The Crisis of Contiguity -- The Bombings: Media and Political Discourses -- The Blind Puppeteer: Atrocity and Civil Society in Indonesia.Development and Recovery in Bali -- Conclusions -- 6 The Occupation of Iraq: Rule of Law and the New Public Sphere -- Resolution -- The First Casualty: David Kelly and Trial by Ordeal -- The New Iraq -- Privatization and Occupation -- Ordeal and Execution -- Al- Jazeera and the Rule of Law -- Images of Violence: Photographs and the Transformative Public Sphere -- Ordeals at Abu Ghraib -- The Body Politic and Abu Ghraib -- Theatre of War -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: Cultural Democracy, Difference and the End of Civilization -- Language Wars Here and Over There -- Democracy and Global Culture -- The Hijab and Global Politics -- World Government: Beware the Faithful -- References -- Index.Language Wars is a fascinating account of the relationship between the media, culture and new forms of global, political violence. Using an innovative approach, Jeff Lewis shows how language and the media are implicated in global terrorism and the US-led reprisals in the war on terror. Through an examination of the language of terrorism and war, Lewis illuminates key events in the current wave of political violence -- the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the Beslan siege, the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bali bombings and the ongoing occupation in the Middle East. He argues that the language used to report incidents of violence has changed, not just in official channels but in wider cultural contexts, and shows the impact this has on social perceptions. Lewis deconstructs these new discourses to reveal how Islam has been construed as the antagonist of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Ideal for students of media studies and cultural studies, this is a subtle account of the relation between language and culture that exposes a dangerous new east-west divide in popular discourse.Mass media and languageMass media and cultureMass media and public opinionTerrorism and mass mediaViolence in mass mediaMass media and language.Mass media and culture.Mass media and public opinion.Terrorism and mass media.Violence in mass media.302.23014Lewis Jeff1964-1605880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826625603321Language wars3931364UNINA