Terrorism
Subtitle: communication and rhetorical perspectives
By: edited by H. Dan O'Hair, ... [et al.].
Contributors: O'Hair, Dan.
Series: The hampton press communication series
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9781572737341; 9781572737358
Subjects: Terrorism; Terrorism -- Prevention
Description: "This volume offers the best available thinking and analysis on the topic of the rhetoric and communication of terrorism. Each of the chapters isolates a particular issue or concern and subsequent processes facing participants in the management of terrorism. This volume is intended for mutliple audiences, including those interested not only in the specific topic but in risk communication, crisis management, policy management, and political science."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The communication and rhetoric of terrorism / H. Dan O'Hair, Robert L. Heath, Kevin J. Ayotte, & Gerald R. Ledlow; title: Terrorism : from the eyes of the beholder / Robert L. Heath & H. Dan O'Hair; title: The complexity of terrorism : groups, semiotics, and the media / Claude H. Miller, Jonathan Matusitz, H. Dan O'Hair, & Jacqueline Eckstein; title: Terrorism, language, and community dialogue / Kevin J. Ayotte & Scott D. Moore; title: Communication and the causes and costs of terrorism : a terror management theory perspective / Claude H. Miller & Mark J. Landau; title: Rhetorical control rooms : postmodern, poststructural, and postcolonial worlds / David McKie & Debashish Munshi; title: Terrorism and failed legitimacy : exploring the links / Juliet Roper; title: Creator's nightmare / Philip C. Wander & Wenshu Lee; title: Recalling U.S. terrorism history in contemporary presidential discourse / Carol Winkler; title: Flying while Arab : the clash of civilizations and the rhetoric of racial profiling in the American empire / Dana L. Cloud; title: Reducing school violence and terrorism through personalized, authentic learning environments / Mary John O'Hair, Randy Averso, & Leslie A. Williams; title: Preachers, terrorism, and war : rhetorical analysis of sermons responding to 9/11 / Mark A. Gring; title: Mirror on a war agenda : Conservative Christian activists and media coverage of the Iraq invasion / Michael Ryan & Les Switzer; title: Frames of terrorism provided by the news media and potential communication responses / Shannon A. Bowen; title: Young adults' media use, emotional reactions, and judgments about terrorism : their effects on political socialization in the post-9/11 world / Edward M. Horowitz & Johan Wanstrom; title: The Internet and terrorist networks / Jonathan Matusitz & H. Dan O'Hair; title: Terrorism as chaos : a chaos model for managing random acts of terror / Timothy L. Sellnow, Robert R. Ulmer, Matthew W. Seeger, & Shari R. Veil; title: Responding to terrorism : risk communication, crisis management, and the CAUSE model / Kathryn E. Rowan, Gary L. Kreps, Carl H. Botan, Lisa Sparks, Sergei Samoilenko, &Charles L. Bailey; title: Shifting paradigms and new directions for managing terrorism / Kevin J. Ayotte, Gerald R. Ledlow, Robert L. Heath, & H. Dan O'Hair.