- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (22 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0230229026
- ISBN-13: 978-0230229020
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,061,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'... the strength of this book lies in its ability to communicate important ideas from media studies to a broad audience of scholars interested in media discourse... Television and Terror effectively describes how television news, through the mediatization of events, works to constitute the social reality in which we live... In particular, it provides fodder for the argument that television can itself be hijacked as a weapon of terror as television news increasingly mediatizes events that take place in today's world.'
- Adam Hodges, Stanford University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Adam Hodges, Stanford University --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Television is a medium of terror. Stories and images of mostly distant violence and bloodshed are streamed continuously into our homes, penetrating our senses of personal and collective safety. And yet the journalism of terror is also the journalism of security. Television, as it delivers daily the spectre of endless terror and violence, also rescues us from the brink of chaos. The unimaginable is rendered familiar and terror is harnessed in the frames, rituals, and routines of the major medium of our age. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate the power of the entanglement of television and terror in both the spinning and the containing of the discourses of insecurity that mark our mediatized experience of the twenty-first century.
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