This book reviews the images and meanings which play a role in our mass-mediated world, especially via television and the computer screen. Gabriel Weimann pays particular attention to the integration of news and entertainment, fact and fiction, and event and story in his discussion of mediated images.
This book reviews the images and meanings which play a role in our mass-mediated world, especially via television and the computer screen. Gabriel Wei...
Reviewing the images and meanings of the mass-mediated world, Gabriel Weimann examines the symbolic environment, where reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community, and identity, he demonstrates that there is often a large gap between reality and the reconstruction of realities as communicated by the mass media.
Reviewing the images and meanings of the mass-mediated world, Gabriel Weimann examines the symbolic environment, where reality and fiction are almo...
This book examines reason and unreason in the legal and political responses to terrorism.
Terrorism is often perceived as sheer madness, unreasonable use of extreme violence and senseless, futile political action. These assertions are challenged by this book. Combining 'traditional' thought (by Kaplan) on reason and unreason in terrorism with empirical explorations of post-modern terrorism and its use of communication platforms (by Weimann) the work uses interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary dimensions to provide a multidimensional picture of critical issues in...
This book examines reason and unreason in the legal and political responses to terrorism.
