- Do the media provide ‘an oxygen of publicity’ for terrorists? Discuss with reference to two case studies. – add to case studies (past terrorist attacks)
– look at the way in which media gives terrorist publicity
– examine and critically evaluate the ways in which they have used the media
– news etc – give a counterargument to say they don’t give the oxygen of publicity. with examples
– refer to past reading and wider reading – Embedded: the media at war in Iraq
– Bill Katovsky; Timothy Carlson 2003 – The Gulf War did not take place Jean Baudrillard 2000
– Imaging Terror: Logos, Pathos and Ethos James Der Derian 2005
– Drone warfare: killing by remote control – Medea Benjamin
– Beyond the War on Terror: Into the Fifth Generation of War and Conflict D. J. Reed 2008 additional files are in my account