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Communication and political crisis : media, politics and governance in a globalized public sphere / Brian McNair.

By: McNair, Brian, 1959- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Global crises and the media ; 16.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, 2016Description: 194 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781433124204 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Mass media -- Political aspects | Communication in politics | Mass media and globalization | Media Studies | Media StudiesDDC classification: 302.2'3 Summary: 'Communication and Political Crisis' explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that the digitised, globalised public sphere now confronted by all political actors has produced new opportunities for social progress and democratic reform, as well as new channels for state propaganda and terrorist spectaculars such as those performed by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Communication and Political Crisis' explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that the digitised, globalised public sphere now confronted by all political actors has produced new opportunities for social progress and democratic reform, as well as new channels for state propaganda and terrorist spectaculars such as those performed by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.

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