Location
Stewart Center 318
Session Number
Session 27: THE SEMIOTICS OF TERRORISM: HOW RHETORIC AND THE MEDIA CONSTRUCT TERRORISM
Start Date
10-9-2011 1:30 PM
End Date
10-9-2011 3:00 PM
Abstract
This paper is devoted to the relationship between terrorism and media, with a special focus on the theoretical notions of “icon”, “mass” and “distance”. It aims to show how the phenomenon of modern terrorism calls into question the essence of modern democracies and their systems of information, based on the distance between vision and event.
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Tele-visioning Terror
Stewart Center 318
This paper is devoted to the relationship between terrorism and media, with a special focus on the theoretical notions of “icon”, “mass” and “distance”. It aims to show how the phenomenon of modern terrorism calls into question the essence of modern democracies and their systems of information, based on the distance between vision and event.
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Keywords:
caroline zekri
tele-visioning; terror; terrorism; media; icon; mass; distance; television; derrida; huyghe; mediology; democracy; information; spectacle; debord; event