Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism
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This title highlights the role of public opinion and media framing in analyzing how we now think about the threat of terrorism. It scrutinizes press coverage of the 9/11 attacks in seven foreign countries: China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Lithuania,...
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This title highlights the role of public opinion and media framing in analyzing how we now think about the threat of terrorism. It scrutinizes press coverage of the 9/11 attacks in seven foreign countries: China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Lithuania, and Russia. It also synthesizes current research on the threat of terrorism from the fields of psychology, sociology, communications, and political science. After 9/11, research on the perceived threat of terrorism moved in several directions. Some scholars examined the social construction of terrorism, scrutinizing the political rhetoric and media coverage associated with the threat. Other researchers investigated the public's elevated worries about terrorism and their effect on public opinion, while still other analysts elucidated the post-9/11 changes in U.S. foreign and domestic policies. "In Freaking Out: A Decade of Living with Terrorism", Joshua Woods unites these areas of research, interweaving the sociology and psychology of terrorism, to create a broader and more compelling explanation of how the attacks on 9/11 have changed American society. Offering a concise review of the shifting policy arena in the post-9/11 era, Woods chronicles not only major U.S. government actions, such as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also less visible changes, such as shifts in immigration policy and the use and abuse of Homeland Security funding by state and local governments. Investigating the public's response to terrorism, Woods examines the link between media coverage of terrorism and public perceptions of the threat, demonstrating how some news coverage elevates people's worries more than others. The events of 9/11 influenced the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of public officials, members of the press, and ordinary people. The reactions of these groups are deeply interrelated, but the study of them has remained isolated and compartmentalized across several academic disciplines until now. Demonstrating the
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virtue of multidisciplinary synthesis, this book advances the growing field of terrorism studies in new directions.
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Autoren-Porträt von Joshua Woods
JOSHUA WOODS is an assistant professor of sociology at West Virginia University. He is the editor of America: Sovereign Defender or Cowboy Nation? (Ashgate, 2005). He lives in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joshua Woods
- 2012, 175 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 22,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Free Press
- ISBN-10: 1597976660
- ISBN-13: 9781597976664
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Englisch
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"Freaking Out" is an extraordinary literary contribution on the topic of terrorism. In it Woods crisscrosses back and forth between academic disciplines, changing lenses from psychology to sociology to political science and communications studies and back again to provide an incredibly insightful look at the effects of 9/11 and the U.S. response to it. The book is very well researched, meticulously documented, and fun to read." James J. Nolan, associate professor of sociology, West Virginia University
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