Recommended Readings

The following publications provide discussions for evaluating the role of the media in the reporting of terrorism, national conflict, and political dissent:

Davies, Nick. Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion, and Propaganda in the Global Media. London: Vintage Books, 2009.

Davis, Richard, and Diana Owen. New Media and American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Edwards, David, and David Cromwell. Newspeak in the 21st Century. London: Pluto Press, 2009.

Gitlin, Todd. The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980.

Herbst, Philip. Talking Terrorism: A Dictionary of the Loaded Language of Political Violence. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

Kavoori, Anandam P., and Todd Fraley, eds. Media, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth Maker From the Crimea to Iraq. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Nacos, Brigitte L. Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Nacos, Brigitte L., Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, and Robert Y. Shapiro. Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Paletz, David L., and Alex P. Schmid, eds. Terrorism and the Media. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992.

Pludowski, Tomasz. How the World’s News Media Reacted to 9/11: Essays From Around the Globe. Spokane, WA: Marquette Books, 2007.

Seib, Philip, ed. New Media and the New Middle East. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2007.

Tuman, Joseph S. Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism. 2nd ed. London: Sage, 2010.

Weimann, Gabriel, and Conrad Winn. The Theater of Terror: Mass Media and International Terrorism. New York: Longman, 1994.