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dc.contributor.authorUbayasiri, Kasun
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-07T12:00:29Z
dc.date.available2018-02-07T12:00:29Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn2201-7208
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/355566
dc.description.abstractThe 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCharles Sturt University
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/011-dangerous-journalism/journalism-in-the-crosshairs-the-islamic-states-exploitation-of-western-media-practice/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto13
dc.relation.ispartofissue011
dc.relation.ispartofjournalFusion
dc.relation.ispartofvolume2017
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchJournalism Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchFilm, Television and Digital Media
dc.subject.fieldofresearchVisual Arts and Crafts
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200101
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode190301
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1902
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1905
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2001
dc.titleJournalism in the Crosshairs: The Islamic State's exploitation of western media practice
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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gro.facultyArts, 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.
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gro.griffith.authorUbayasiri, Kasun G.


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