BISA 2024 Conference

Media Discourses on Security and Threat

7 Jun 2024, 13:15

1h 30m

Room 101, Library

Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Description

This panel brings together papers that examine the representation of 'threat', 'terrorism' and 'extremism' within media discourses.

Subcontributions

• ‘Islamic State’ in Chinese State News Media: Reporting Terrorism within a Communist Regime
• Grand Narrative and Orientalism: A Postmodern Study of Muslim representation in John Updike's Terrorist and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• (Re)Imagining the Caliphate – Exploring the Interplay between Media and Political (Self)Representations of the Islamic State
• Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Transformative Role of Social Media in Narrative Contestation