The violent image
Subtitle: insurgent propaganda and the new revolutionaries
By: Neville Bolt
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781849041911
Subjects: Insurgency; Public relations; History; Revolutionaries; Communication in politics; Technological innovations; Political violence in mass media; Terrorism in mass media; Public relations and politics; Propaganda; Terrorists; Internet and terrorism; Mass media and propaganda
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction ; What is propaganda of the deed (POTD)? ; Overview ; Different ways of reading POTD; title: The Terrorist act as communicator ; Historical context ; POTD : twenty-first century communicator ; Propaganda ; Political marketing ; Strategic communications : the state ; Strategic communications : the insurgent; title: 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; title: Insurgent memory and narrative ; Symbols of resistance ; Irish republicanism ; Young Ireland ; Fenians ; Easter Rising 1916 ; Anglo-Irish and civil wars ; Mitigating atrocity; title: 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; title: Television memory; title: pt. 1. How is memory shaped across the media landscape? ; Ownership and political elites ; Audiences ; Creating memory; title: pt. 2. How event and spectacle challenge media memory ; Event and spectacle in the media landscape; title: LIVE-ness ; Turning weakness into strength; title: 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; title: Spontaneous revolution ; The Arab uprisings and liberation-technology ; Dead men do talk ; Anonymity and leaderless revolution ; Spontaneity and revolution; title: 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'; title: Conclusion ; A new conceptual framework for POTD ; Broader reflections ; Implications for the future.