The violent image : insurgent propaganda and the new revolutionaries /
Bolt, Neville.
London : Hurst,
2012.
Includes bibliographic references (p. 365-415) and index.
Introduction ; What is propaganda of the deed (POTD)? ; Overview ; Different ways of reading POTD -- The Terrorist act as communicator ; Historical context ; POTD : twenty-first century communicator ; Propaganda ; Political marketing ; Strategic communications : the state ; Strategic communications : the insurgent -- Archipelago of memories ; Memory, myths and terror ; Constructing memory ; The outside world of the self ; The outside world of the group ; Myths maketh man ; POTD as metaphor -- Insurgent memory and narrative ; Symbols of resistance ; Irish republicanism ; Young Ireland ; Fenians ; Easter Rising 1916 ; Anglo-Irish and civil wars ; Mitigating atrocity -- The insurgent image ; Opportunity spaces and images ; Opportunity and speed ; Capturing attention ; Images as weapons ; Resonance, anticipation ; Unseen, unspoken ; Directing images ; Using frames to trigger action -- Television memory -- pt. 1. How is memory shaped across the media landscape? ; Ownership and political elites ; Audiences ; Creating memory -- pt. 2. How event and spectacle challenge media memory ; Event and spectacle in the media landscape -- LIVE-ness ; Turning weakness into strength -- Where the imaginary meets the virtual ; Surges, flows and scapes ; Networks in real and virtual worlds ; Social capital ; Self-generating communications ; Archipelagos and diasporas : defining the population ; Outmanoeuvring bureaucracies ; Strategic opportunism -- Spontaneous revolution ; The Arab uprisings and liberation-technology ; Dead men do talk ; Anonymity and leaderless revolution ; Spontaneity and revolution -- The new strategic operating concept ; Opening spaces at the fin-de-siecle ; Information and the military ; POTD as insurgent concept of operations ; IEDs, suicides and dirty bombs ; Information and 'new terrorism' -- Conclusion ; A new conceptual framework for POTD ; Broader reflections ; Implications for the future.
Propaganda.
Revolutionaries.
Terrorists.
Terrorism and mass media.
Internet and terrorism.
Mass media and propaganda.