Over the past few years, coverage of terror attacks has featured prominently in numerous media outlets. Drawing on both popular and academic articles, the essays inMedia, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader analyze the larger issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism, including terrorism as a media event, war and media, nationalism and media, public responsibility, and journalistic accountability. Renowned contributors from around the world explore these issues as they relate to a global community. From such diverse fields as cultural studies, political science, media studies, architecture, and information science, each brings a distinctive perspective. Answering a growing need to understand media discourse on terrorism,Media, Terrorism, and Theory complements readings in upper-level mass communication courses and will appeal to students and scholars of international media and terrorism.

Anandam P. Kavoori is associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Georgia.Todd Fraley is assistant professor of communication at East Carolina University.

Part 1 Part 1: OrientationsChapter 2 1 Televising the "War on Terrorism": The Myths of MoralityChapter 3 2 Mediatizing the Global War on Terror: Television's Public EyePart 4 Part 2: Genres and ContextsChapter 5 3 Prime Time Terror: The Case ofLa Jetée and12 MonkeysChapter 7 4 Mediated Terrorism in Comparative Perspective: Spanish Press Coverage of 9/11 vs. Coverage of Basque TerrorismChapter 8 5 National Politics of Belonging and Conflicting Masculinities: Race and the Representation of Recent WarsChapter 8 6 Terrorism and the Exploitation of New MediaPart 9 Part 3: Frames and ContextsChapter 10 8 Critical Media Theory, Democratic Communication, and Global ConflictChapter 11 9 Terrorism, Public Relations, and PropagandaChapter 12 10 September 11, Social Theory, and Democratic PoliticsChapter 13 11 International Communication after Terrorism: Towards a Postcolonial Dialectic