ISIS Beyond the Spectacle
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ISIS Beyond the Spectacle

Communication Media, Networked Publics, and Terrorism

  1. 142 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

ISIS Beyond the Spectacle

Communication Media, Networked Publics, and Terrorism

About this book

What is ISIS? A quasi-state? A terrorist group? A movement? An ideology? As ISIS has transformed and mutated, gained and lost territory, horrified the world and been its punch line, media have been central to understanding it. The changing, yet constant, relationship between ISIS and the media, as well as its adversaries' dependency on media to make sense of ISIS, is central to this book.

More than just the images of mutilated bodies that garnered ISIS its initial infamy, the book considers an ISIS media world that includes infographics, administrative reports, and various depictions of a post-racial utopia in which justice is swift and candy is bought and sold with its own currency. The book reveals that the efforts of ISIS and its adversaries to communicate and make sense of this world share modes of visual, aesthetic, and journalistic practice and expression. The short tumultuous history of ISIS does not allow for a single approach to understanding its relation to media. Thus, the book's contributions are to be read as contrapuntal analyses that productively connect and disconnect, providing a much-needed complex account of the ISIS-media relationship.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.

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Index

Note: Page numbers in italics refer to figures
Page numbers in bold refer to tables
Page numbers followed by “n” refer to notes
Achilles 112
Adelman, Rebecca A. 3, 24
Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-, 55, 62
Adorno, T. W. 81
airstrikes 55
Aleppo Province Media Office 58n12
Allen, M. 16
Amaq News Agency 34, 36, 44–8, 57n2,n6,n8, 58n14
American Thinker, The 126
Angelus Novus (Klee) 132
animalization 14–15
annihilation 8, 14–15
anti-humanist critique 14–18, 19–20
anti-terrorism, digital 126
Arendt, Hannah 109, 110, 111
Artrip, Ryan E. 4, 77
Asad, Talal 35
Assad, Bashar al-, 4, 62, 66, 131
Assad, Hafiz al-, 63
assassinations 25
atrocity videos, ISIS 9, 10, 13
Ayalon, A. 10
al-Azm, Sadik, 100
Baath Party 62
Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-, 43, 62–4, 67, 68–9, 70
Bannon, Steve 96
“Battle of Mosul” 37, 37
Baudrillard, Jean 2, 3, 18, 79–82, 87–90, 123
Bayan Radio 46, 58n10
Bayat, A. 71
beheadings 34, 37, 60, 86, 87, 108, 112; see also executions; immolations
Benjamin, Walter 132, 133
Berger, J. M. 43, 9...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Citation Information
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction – ISIS beyond the spectacle: communication media, networked publics, terrorism
  10. Section I: Brand/Media/Visualization
  11. Section II: Media Theory
  12. Section III: Journalism/Narratives/Interpretive Tiers
  13. Index