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'... the strength of this book lies in its ability to communicate important ideas from media studies to a broad audience of scholars interested in media discourse... Television and Terror effectively describes how television news, through the mediatization of events, works to constitute the social reality in which we live... In particular, it provides fodder for the argument that television can itself be hijacked as a weapon of terror as television news increasingly mediatizes events that take place in today's world.' - Adam Hodges, Stanford University

'... the strength of this book lies in its ability to communicate important ideas from media studies to a broad audience of scholars interested in media discourse... Television and Terror effectively describes how television news, through the mediatization of events, works to constitute the social reality in which we live... In particular, it provides fodder for the argument that television can itself be hijacked as a weapon of terror as television news increasingly mediatizes events that take place in today's world.' - Adam Hodges, Stanford University

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ANDREW HOSKINS is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (2004) develops his concept of 'new memory' in relation to conflict. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Memory Studies and founding Co-Editor of Media, War & Conflict, new international and interdisciplinary journals being launched in 2008. His current work includes: Media and Memory (2007). BEN O'LOUGHLIN is Lecturer in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He completed his doctorate in Politics at the U

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