Terrorism as Communication: Stocktaking, Explanations and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9783658382414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 396 str.

Liane Rothenberger

Opis

Communication theories and terrorism - how can a connection be made here? Terrorism is a dominant topic in today's world: It sometimes dominates public political discussion as well as private conversations. Communication studies can help to further penetrate the phenomenon of terrorism and provide important pieces of the puzzle to grasp it in its entirety. The development of media skills among some terrorist groups makes it imperative that the "social problem of terrorism" be approached with the help of a "communications science lens.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The Relevance of Terrorism Research Based on Communication Studies.- Chapter 2. Perspective Description and Delimitation of Object and Knowledge Range. Chapter 3. Identification of Relevant Process Steps and Actors in Terrorism.- Chapter 4. Middle-Range Theories and Their Applicability to the Phenomenon of “Terrorism”.- Chapter 5. Terrorism from the Perspective of Grand Theories of Communication Studies.- Chapter 6. Theoretical Conclusions and Practical Implications./

O autorze

PD Dr. Liane Tessa Rothenberger holds the professorship of media and the public with focus on migration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
 

Blurb

Communication theories and terrorism - how can a connection be made here? Terrorism is a dominant topic: It sometimes determines public political discussion as well as private conversations. Communication studies can penetrate the phenomenon of terrorism and provide important pieces of the puzzle to grasp it in its entirety. Moreover, the development of media literacy among some terrorist groups underscores the need to look at the social problem of terrorism from a communication studies perspective.

The Author

PD Dr. Liane Tessa Rothenberger is a senior lecturer at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Ilmenau Technical University.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.