1st Edition
ISIS Beyond the Spectacle Communication Media, Networked Publics, and Terrorism
Introduction – ISIS beyond the spectacle: communication media, networked publics, terrorism 1. The communication of horrorism: a typology of ISIS online death videos 2. One apostate run over, hundreds repented: excess, unthinkability, and infographics from the war with I.S.I.S. 3. Apocalypse, later: a longitudinal study of the Islamic State brand 4. Fun against fear in the Caliphate: Islamic State’s spectacle and counter-spectacle 5. The viral mediation of terror: ISIS, image, implosion 6. Cold War redux and the news: Islamic State and the US through each other’s eyes 7. Deflating the iconoclash: shifting the focus from Islamic State’s iconoclasm to its realpolitik 8. Arguing with ISIS: web 2.0, open source journalism, and narrative disruption
Biography
Mehdi Semati is Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University, USA, and has published on media and terrorism, and Islamophobia.
Piotr M. Szpunar is Assistant Professor of Communication at Albany, State University of New York, USA, and is the author of Homegrown: Identity and Difference in the American War on Terror (2018).
Robert Alan Brookey is Professor of Telecommunications at Ball State University, USA, and has published on political economy and identity politics in new media and virtual environments.
