Television and Terror

Author Andrew Hoskins: Andrew Hoskins is Director of the Adam Smith Research Foundation. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical investigation of today s new media ecology and the nature of/challenges for security, and individual, social and cultural memory in this environment. He has an established record of leading externally funded empirical research into the shifting relations between media, war and terrorism, media and radicalisation, and media and memory. His current work explores the relationship between connectivity, risk, and memory.

Prologue: The (Terrorised) State we're in Introduction Television and Time Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of the 'CNN Effect' Talking Terror: Political Discourses and the 2003 Iraq War Television's Quagmire: The Misremembered and the Unforgotten The Distant Body Drama and Documentary: The Power of Nightmares Security and Publics: Democratic Times? The Irresolution of Television