Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections

ISBN-13: 9780367544768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 196 str.

Ossa, Vanessa

Opis

This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of media.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Introducing Medial Reflections: Threat Communication and the US-American Order after 9/11  2. Reflecting the Mediality of Threat with Anders’ Phantom and Derrida’s Specter  3. The "War on Terror" Identity Narrative in Politics and Media  4. The Sleeper Agent as Ambivalent Figure in Post-9/11 Threat Communication  5. The Banality of Militarism in the Late "War on Terror"  6. Bipolar Citizenship: Security State Allegory from the "War on Terror" to the Obama Era  7. Prison Selfies: Spectacle, Invisibility, and the Normalcy of Exceptional Brutality  8. "Non-Offensive Computation": Project Maven and Google’s Discourse of Drone Power  9.Unravelling the "Trump Shock," or: The Intertwined Threat Communication of "Post-11/9"  10. "Once More With Feeling": Trump, Premediation, and 21st Century