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  Britz: Muslims and Postmodern Media after 9/11

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  Ashwani Sharma University of East London

  April 16, 2008

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  drama with the burning of the Union Jack flag and the refrain 'Whose side are you on?' ... with the refrain 'Whose side are you on?', while being framed by an ideologically problematic ...
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  The Inadequately Violent State?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  May 17, 2010

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  side of life.  In  the case of this ordinary man-turned-terrorist, stupidity is certainly a plea on the ... side of life but a plea enacted by a threat against it, against other ordinary citizens of India.  It ... character, possibly a conceit borrowed from Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988), and the "stupidity" of ...
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  Israeli Air Power: Bombs on YouTube

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  Helga Tawil-Souri New York University

  March 31, 2009

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  Israeli Air Power: Bombs on YouTube Youtube terrorism Israel propaganda war Palestine Gaza bombs missiles Hamas IDF air force moral army Curator's Note After the apparent public relations failure (and, arguably, military failure) of Israel’s war with ...
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  What Kind of Animal is the ISIS Cat?

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  Matt Cornell Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

  April 08, 2016

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  What Kind of Animal is the ISIS Cat? twitter terrorism selfies portraiture memes ISIS cats Curator's Note The images that you are looking at are screenshots taken from a now-suspended Twitter account called @isilcats or Islamic State of Cat. From Jun ...
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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi?

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  July 13, 2007

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  Battlestar Galactica: Subversive Sci-Fi? terrorism Sci-fi Battlestar Galactica cable original programming ratings Curator's Note Time Magazine has hailed BSG as the best program on television. Critics praise its under-dog protagonists' perspecti ...