Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege

Saira Ali; Umi M Khattab

doi:10.1177/1742766518811367

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Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege

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Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege

Saira Ali and Umi M Khattab

Global Media and Communication, Vol.14(3), pp.301-323

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766518811367

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Abstract

Australia

terrorism

moral panic

Islamophobia model

trans-media

discourse

case study

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.

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Title: Trans-mediatized terrorism: The Sydney Lindt Café siege
Authors: Saira Ali (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Umi 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
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

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