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Winner of the 2008 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Political Communication Division of the National Communication AssociationThe topic of terrorism has evolved into an ideological marker of American culture, one that has fundamentally altered the relationship between the three branches of government, between the government and the people, and between America and countries abroad. In the Name of Terrorism describes and analyzes the public communication strategies presidents have deployed to discuss terrorism since the end of World War II. Drawing upon internal administration documents, memoirs, and public papers, Carol K. Winkler uncovers how presidents have capitalized on public perceptions of the terrorist threat, misrepresented actual terrorist events, and used the term "terrorism" to influence electoral outcomes both at home and abroad. Perhaps more importantly, she explains their motivations for doing so, and critically discusses the moral and political implications of the present range of narratives used to present terrorism to the public.

Ideology --- Presidents --- Rhetoric --- Political oratory --- Terrorism --- Presidency --- Heads of state --- Executive power --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Language. --- Political aspects --- Government policy

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Visual images have been a central component of propaganda for as long as propaganda has been produced. But recent developments in communication and information technologies have given terrorist and extremist groups options and abilities they never would have been able to come close to even 5 or 10 years ago. There are terrorist groups who, with very little initial investment, are making videos that are coming so close to the quality of BBC or CNN broadcasts that the difference is meaningless, and with access to the web they have instantaneous access to a global audience. Given the broad social science consensus on the power of visual images relative to that of words, the strategic implications of these groups' sophistication in the use of images in the online environment is carefully considered in a variety of contexts by the authors in this collection --

Terrorism and mass media. --- Mass media and propaganda. --- Terrorism --- Visual communication --- Internet --- Extremist Web sites. --- Computer network resources. --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects.