Language wars [[electronic resource] ] : the role of media and culture in global terror and political violence / / Jeff Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Jeff <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23014 |
Soggetto topico |
Mass media and language
Mass media and culture Mass media and public opinion Terrorism and mass media Violence in mass media |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-84964-463-2
1-281-75094-8 9786611750947 1-4356-6264-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454692803321 |
Lewis Jeff <1964-> | ||
London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language wars [[electronic resource] ] : the role of media and culture in global terror and political violence / / Jeff Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Jeff <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23014 |
Soggetto topico |
Mass media and language
Mass media and culture Mass media and public opinion Terrorism and mass media Violence in mass media |
ISBN |
1-84964-463-2
1-281-75094-8 9786611750947 1-4356-6264-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782023803321 |
Lewis Jeff <1964-> | ||
London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language wars : the role of media and culture in global terror and political violence / / Jeff Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Jeff <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23014 |
Soggetto topico |
Mass media and language
Mass media and culture Mass media and public opinion Terrorism and mass media Violence in mass media |
ISBN |
1-84964-463-2
1-281-75094-8 9786611750947 1-4356-6264-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826625603321 |
Lewis Jeff <1964-> | ||
London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Media, culture and human violence : from savage lovers to violent complexity / / Jeff Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Jeff <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23 |
Soggetto topico |
Culture
Mass media and culture Violence in mass media |
ISBN | 1-78348-516-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The cultural animal -- Savage lovers : language, communalism and violent simplicity -- Symbolic revolutions : agriculture, climate change and the beginnings of war -- Violent complexity : writing, god and the ancient enlightenment -- What is enlightenment? : liberalism, romantic science and the first mass media -- In the age of agitation : modern media, violent consumers and imaginings of state -- Web of world s: nature, love and the internet -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798089703321 |
Lewis Jeff <1964-> | ||
New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Media, culture and human violence : from savage lovers to violent complexity / / Jeff Lewis |
Autore | Lewis Jeff <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23 |
Soggetto topico |
Culture
Mass media and culture Violence in mass media |
ISBN | 1-78348-516-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The cultural animal -- Savage lovers : language, communalism and violent simplicity -- Symbolic revolutions : agriculture, climate change and the beginnings of war -- Violent complexity : writing, god and the ancient enlightenment -- What is enlightenment? : liberalism, romantic science and the first mass media -- In the age of agitation : modern media, violent consumers and imaginings of state -- Web of world s: nature, love and the internet -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828584303321 |
Lewis Jeff <1964-> | ||
New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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