Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

About

Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications in the Department of Media Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. He is co-director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and a founding member of the Media Reform Coalition. His publications include as editor Capitalisms Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian (Pluto 2021) and as author The Contradictions of Media Power (Bloomsbury 2014) The Politics of Media Policy (Polity 2008) Misunderstanding the Internet (Routledge 2016 co-authored with James Curran and Natalie Fenton) and The Media Manifesto (Polity 2020 co-authored with Natalie Fenton Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik). He has co-edited books on a wide range of themes including media racism and terrorism the politics of higher education media reform and the future of television. Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014 he was honored with a Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication.