COMM 29908. MEDIA AND TERRORISM This course addresses important questions about the marking of certain events as terrorism and how these acts and their representation (in media, the law, the government, etc.) underlie deeper societal issues. Students will trace the genealogies of terrorism discourse as foundational to the study of communication and terrorism and will learn the definitions and meanings of terrorism from a critical perspective to discuss why some acts that breach societal expectations about violence are marked as terrorism and others are not. The course draws from the interdisciplinarity of cultural studies and international and intercultural communication, among other disciplines, to examine the repercussions of communication about terrorism in contemporary society in the U.S.A. and other nation-states. Important issues addressed in this course relate to questions about racialized identity at the intersection of religion, nationality, sexuality, and class. At the core of this reflection are a
- Teacher: Simon Rousset