dc.contributor.author | Ubayasiri, Kasun | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-07T12:00:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-07T12:00:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2201-7208 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/355566 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Islamist terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) harnesses a sophisticated and nuanced media strategy to use and abuse journalists to deliver strategic outcomes favourable to ISIS. Basing its discussion on the beheadings of James Foley, Steven Sotloff and Kenji Goto, this paper examines how these killings were framed in ISIS media and how the organisation justifies journalist killings as a legitimate act of warfare. It argues that ISIS’s exploitation of the western press for strategic gains – and indeed the execution of journalists – may be circumvented though a paradigm shift in news reporting from superficial event-based reporting that repackages ISIS frames, to a more nuanced coverage that unmasks what strategic needs terrorists aim to fulfil through their violence. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Charles Sturt University | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/011-dangerous-journalism/journalism-in-the-crosshairs-the-islamic-states-exploitation-of-western-media-practice/ | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 13 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 011 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Fusion | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 2017 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Communication Studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Journalism Studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Film, Television and Digital Media | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Visual Arts and Crafts | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Communication and Media Studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 200101 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 190301 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1902 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1905 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 2001 | |
dc.title | Journalism in the Crosshairs: The Islamic State's exploitation of western media practice | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © The Author(s) 2017. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Ubayasiri, Kasun G. | |