What is ISIS? A quasi-state? A terrorist group? A movement? An ideology? As ISIS has transformed and mutated, gained and lost territory, horrified the world and been its punch line, media have been central to understanding it. The changing, yet constant, relationship between ISIS and the media, as well as its adversaries' dependency on media to make sense of ISIS, is central to this book.

More than just the images of mutilated bodies that garnered ISIS its initial infamy, the book considers an ISIS media world that includes infographics, administrative reports, and various depictions of a post-racial utopia in which justice is swift and candy is bought and sold with its own currency. The book reveals that the efforts of ISIS and its adversaries to communicate and make sense of this world share modes of visual, aesthetic, and journalistic practice and expression. The short tumultuous history of ISIS does not allow for a single approach to understanding its relation to media. Thus, the book's contributions are to be read as contrapuntal analyses that productively connect and disconnect, providing a much-needed complex account of the ISIS-media relationship.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2020

ISBN

9780429894947

Edition

Topic

Filología

Subtopic

Estudios de comunicación

Index

Note: Page numbers in italics refer to figures

Page numbers in bold refer to tables

Page numbers followed by “n” refer to notes

Achilles 112

Adelman, Rebecca A. 3, 24

Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-, 55, 62

Adorno, T. W. 81

airstrikes 55

Aleppo Province Media Office 58n12

Allen, M. 16

Amaq News Agency 34, 36, 44–8, 57n2,n6,n8, 58n14

American Thinker, The 126

Angelus Novus (Klee) 132

animalization 14–15

annihilation 8, 14–15

anti-humanist critique 14–18, 19–20

anti-terrorism, digital 126

Arendt, Hannah 109, 110, 111

Artrip, Ryan E. 4, 77

Asad, Talal 35

Assad, Bashar al-, 4, 62, 66, 131

Assad, Hafiz al-, 63

assassinations 25

atrocity videos, ISIS 9, 10, 13

Ayalon, A. 10

al-Azm, Sadik, 100

Baath Party 62

Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-, 43, 62–4, 67, 68–9, 70

Bannon, Steve 96

“Battle of Mosul” 37, 37

Baudrillard, Jean 2, 3, 18, 79–82, 87–90, 123

Bayan Radio 46, 58n10

Bayat, A. 71

beheadings 34, 37, 60, 86, 87, 108, 112; see also executions; immolations

Benjamin, Walter 132, 133

Berger, J. M. 43, 9...

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Citation Information
Notes on Contributors
Introduction – ISIS beyond the spectacle: communication media, networked publics, terrorism
Section I: Brand/Media/Visualization
Section II: Media Theory
Section III: Journalism/Narratives/Interpretive Tiers
Index