Journal article
Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege
Global Media and Communication, Vol.14(3), pp.301-323
2018
Abstract
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the Australian media representation of terrorism using the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café Siege as a case in point to engage with the notion of moral panic. Deploying critical discourse analysis and case study as mixed methods, insights into trans-media narratives and aftermaths of the terrifying siege are presented. While news media appeared to collaborate with the Australian right-wing government in the reporting of terrorism, social media posed challenges and raised security concerns for the State. Social media heightened the drama as sites were variously deployed by the perpetrator, activists and concerned members of the public. The amplified trans-media association of Muslims with terrorism in Australia and its national and global impact, in terms of the political exclusion of Muslims, is best described in this article in the form of an Islamophobic Moral Panic Model, invented for a rethink of the various stages of its occurrence, intensification and institutionalisation.
Details
- Title
- Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege
- Authors
- Saira Ali (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawUmi M Khattab (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Publication details
- Global Media and Communication, Vol.14(3), pp.301-323
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1177/1742766518811367
- ISSN
- 1742-7665; 1742-7665
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2018 The Author. The author's accepted version is reproduced here in accordance with the publisher's copyright policy. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742766518811367
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451447402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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