The Event of Terrorism: Ambiguous Categories and Public Spectacle

dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NC-NDen
dc.contributor.authorPrice, Stuarten
dc.date.acceptance2017-09-30en
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-27T10:23:17Z
dc.date.available2017-11-27T10:23:17Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-06
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the ways in which executive authority and media organizations categorize the spectacle of public violence and disaster, with particular reference to an event (the Germanwings crash in 2015) where large-scale fatalities were purposely caused. On occasions when a perpetrator commits multiple killings (acting impersonally but with “malice aforethought,” and usually against civilian victims), the immediate question appears to be whether or not the incident should be classified as a terrorist attack. This is especially the case during periods when mass or individual assaults are prominent in the public domain. The article examines the problems inherent in the uses of unstable or contested linguistic definitions, which typify the family of terms that include both the act of terrorizing individuals, groups, and wider polities, and the supposedly political practice known as terrorism.en
dc.exception.reasonFull text not deposited within 3 months of acceptanceen
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationPrice, S. (2017) The Event of Terrorism: Ambiguous Categories and Public Spectacle. Television & New Media, online firsten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1527476417701995
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/14925
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherSAGE PUBLICATIONSen
dc.researchgroupMedia Discourse Groupen
dc.researchinstituteMedia Discourse Centre (MDC)en
dc.subjectTerrorismen
dc.subjectEventsen
dc.subjectMediaen
dc.subjectCategoriesen
dc.subjectAuthorityen
dc.subjectPublicen
dc.titleThe Event of Terrorism: Ambiguous Categories and Public Spectacleen
dc.typeArticleen

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