Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror" - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813538297 ISBN 13: 9780813538297

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture as a way of understanding global security. Although only a decade ago, such a focus would have seemed out of place, the proliferation of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has transformed our knowledge of near and distant events so that it has become impossible to separate the politics of war, suffering, terrorism, and security from the practices and processes of the media.

This book brings together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet.  The contributors, from a wide range of disciplines, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful.  Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities, to the role that television programming plays as an interpretative frame for current events.

Designed to promote strategic thinking about the relationships between media, popular culture, and global security, this book is essential reading for scholars of international relations, technology, and media studies.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Martin is an associate professor and chair of the English department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Patrice Petro is a professor and director of the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Review:

The relationship between security policy and popular and public culture has changed dramatically over the last ten years, a change that calls out for probing critical attention. This timely collection pointedly responds to the need for genuine interdisciplinary engagement with such current issues. Its essays are excitingly original and sophisticated, providing analyses long overdue. - J. David Slocum, editor of Terrorism, Media, Liberation

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813538297
• ISBN 13: 9780813538297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Martin Andrew