TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brian McNair
PY  - 2016
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453918036
TI  - Communication and Political Crisis
T2  - Media, Politics and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere
DO  - 10.3726/b10471
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109635
N2  - Communication and Political Crisis explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that the digitized, globalized public sphere now confronted by all political actors has produced new opportunities for social progress and democratic reform, as well as new channels for state propaganda and terrorist spectaculars such as those performed by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. In this major work, McNair argues that the role of digital communication will be crucial in determining the outcome of pressing global issues such as the future of feminism and gay rights, freedom of speech and media, and democracy itself.
KW  - islamic state, confilcts, middle east
LA  - English
ER  -