Radicalisation and Media: Connectivity and Terrorism in the New Media Ecology (Hardback... - 0 views
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Sicco van Bolhuis on 22 Feb 11Examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there appears to be emerging threats to security and stability in the shape of individuals and groups holding or espousing radical views about religion, ideology, often represented in the media as oppositional to Western values. Describes new aspects about these radicalising discourses, how and why they relate to political acts of violence and terror, and what the role of the mass media is in promoting or hindering them. 3210 HOSK