Radicalisation and Media: Connectivity and Terrorism in the New Media Ecology

by Andrew Hoskins and Awan Akil

Book Overview

This book examines 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415641993
• ISBN13: 9780415641999
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"