Assignment
From this readings, it is apparent that the media has had a tremendous impact upon the issue of terrorism. Can you distinguish the manner in which the media was utilized by terrorist organizations in the past to advance their agendas and objectives to that being employed today, considering the many advancements in technology? Your content should place an underlying focus upon the impact such communication and media efforts have and continue to have upon the mind of the terrorist.
Use 3 sources from below
Reading:
• Hoffman, Bruce. 2006. The Old Media, Terrorism, and Public Opinion & The New Media, Terrorism and the Shaping of Global Opinion. In Inside Terrorism, 173-228. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Seib, Philip. 2008. The Al-Qaeda Medía Machíne. Military Review 88, no. 3: 74-80. Academic Search Premier.
• Stewart, Scott. 2012. Keeping Terrorism in Perspective. Statfor.
• Theohary, Catherine A., and John Rollins. 2011. Terrorist Use of the Internet: Information Operations In Cyberspace. International Journal Of Terrorism & Political Hot Spots 6, no. 4: 597-614.
• Weimann, Gabriel. 2011. Cyber- Fatwas and Terrorism. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 34, no. 10: 765-781.
Additional Resources:
Ryan, Michael, and Les Switzer. 2009. Propaganda and the Subversion of Objectivity: Media Coverage of the War on Terrorism in Iraq. Critical Studies on Terrorism 2, no. 1: 45-64. Terrorism and the Media: A Dangerous Symbiosis.