Journal article
Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia: the Peshawar massacre
Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.173(1), pp.108-124
2019
Abstract
Terrorism is not a threat to Western civilisation alone. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives and using Pakistan as a case, where the war-on-terror is being fought ceaselessly, analysis was carried out on Pakistan's mainstream media coverage of, and citizen media reactions to, the December 2014 Peshawar school terror attack where 144 people, mostly children, were killed. Discourse analysis of media texts reflects that Pakistan's mainstream media was spineless in openly fighting terrorism as it focused on the victims of the attack while camouflaging stories with shahadat-ism (martyrdom). On the other hand, citizen media condemned the Taliban perpetrators and hotly debated the perils of Taliban-ism and Islamo-fascism. Attempts to fight militant Islamism and mitigate terrorism were evident in an emerging citizen sphere where the issue took on new meanings, unlike the West. It is important for journalists to be culturally alert in reporting 'terrorism' in the light of the intersections of Islamism.
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- Title
- Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia: the Peshawar massacre
- Authors
- Saira Ali (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Creative IndustriesUmi M Khattab (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - School of Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.173(1), pp.108-124
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2019
- DOI
- 10.1177/1329878X19833789
- ISSN
- 1329-878X
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451001102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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