ATS1701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Polysemy
25 May 2018
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Lecture - 4 - week 4 - Islamist media and social networking
- objectives
• generate understandings on how
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o the relationship between mass media and terrorism
o how the mass media frame terrorism and terrorist
- mass media now following the media that is actually generated by terrorists
themselves
- limitations to how terrorists can use information technology
- mass media introduce populations to terrorists and their causes
- mainstream media can make groups appear to be more significant than they
are
- terrorists and extremists utilise media in diverse ways
• propaganda
• recruitment
• communication
• information resource distribution
• integration
•
o able to form communities
- extremist sources of information are vulnerable to manipulation through media
and online interventions
- polysemy - number of different functions in its pitch
• terrorist messaging has multiple layers - geared towards many different
people
- religious terrorists - see it as their job to destroy enemies but also to convert
others
- what is media culture?
• diverse
• comprised of different forms of delivery and reception - radio,
newspapers, television, film, books
• media culture - raw materials for developing identity - supplier
• provides the materials out of which people construct their sense of class,
ethnicity, race, national, sexuality
• helps share the prevalent view of the world - deepest values
• defines what is good or bad - moral s
• raw materials for narratives about who we are as a nation or set of
nations
• how we form opinions
• significance
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o how the media portray various groups and how and the extent to
which they are able to portray and present themselves influences
how the broader public will understand them and establish
feelings towards them - aggression, empathy etc
- what is the perceived relationship between media and terrorism
• use of media is essential for generating fear
• terrorism is a form of political communication terrorisms victims are its
messages
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Document Summary
Lecture - 4 - week 4 - islamist media and social networking. Objectives: generate understandings on how the relationship between mass media and terrorism, how the mass media frame terrorism and terrorist. Mass media now following the media that is actually generated by terrorists themselves. Limitations to how terrorists can use information technology. Mass media introduce populations to terrorists and their causes. Mainstream media can make groups appear to be more significant than they are. Terrorists and extremists utilise media in diverse ways: propaganda recruitment communication information resource distribution integration, able to form communities. Extremist sources of information are vulnerable to manipulation through media and online interventions. Polysemy - number of different functions in its pitch terrorist messaging has multiple layers - geared towards many different people. Religious terrorists - see it as their job to destroy enemies but also to convert others.
