The violent image : insurgent propaganda and the new revolutionaries /
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| Author / Creator: | Bolt, Neville. |
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| Imprint: | London : Hurst & Co., 2012. |
| Description: | xxvii, 429 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8843466 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
