ISIS Beyond the Spectacle: Communication Media, Networked Publics, and Terrorism

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Mehdi Semati (Northern Illinois University, USA) Piotr M. Szpunar (University of Albany, SUNY, USA)

ISIS Beyond the Spectacle

Communication Media, Networked Publics, and Terrorism

Mehdi Semati (Northern Illinois University, USA), Piotr M. Szpunar (University of Albany, SUNY, USA), Robert Alan Brookey (Ball State University, USA)

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Routledge
30 June 2020

Communication studies; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; Media studies; Political campaigning & advertising; Terrorism, armed struggle

What is ISIS? A quasi-state? A terrorist group? A movement? An ideology? As ISIS has transformed and mutated, gained and lost territory, horrified the world and been its punch line, media have been central to understanding it. The changing, yet constant, relationship between ISIS and the media, as well as its adversaries’ dependency on media to make sense of ISIS, is central to this book.

More than just the images of mutilated bodies that garnered ISIS its initial infamy, the book considers an ISIS media world that includes infographics, administrative reports, and various depictions of a post-racial utopia in which justice is swift and candy is bought and sold with its own currency. The book reveals that the efforts of ISIS and its adversaries to communicate and make sense of this world share modes of visual, aesthetic, and journalistic practice and expression. The short tumultuous history of ISIS does not allow for a single approach to understanding its relation to media. Thus, the book’s contributions are to be read as contrapuntal analyses that productively connect and disconnect, providing a much-needed complex account of the ISIS-media relationship.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Edited by: Mehdi Semati (Northern Illinois University USA), Piotr M. Szpunar (University of Albany, SUNY, USA), Robert Alan Brookey (Ball State University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9780367587277
ISBN 10: 0367587270
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.