Mass-Mediated Terrorism: Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism

With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media’s appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, allow terrorists to communicate directly with huge audiences around the globe spreading their propaganda, radicalizing and recruiting followers, and providing know-how to “lone wolves.” On the other hand, governments in democracies, too, utilize mass media to enlist public support for counterterrorist measures. This volume will help readers to understand the centrality of media considerations in both terrorism and counterterrorism.

• Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
• Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State
• Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues
• Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
• Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists
• The European Union: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• Global Communication
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism
• United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?
• Misunderstanding Terrorism