Security journalism and 'the mainstream' in Britain since 7/7: Translating terror but inciting violence?

International Affairs

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 903-924

  Hoskins, Andrew ^a   O'loughlin, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77954807437     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: 14682346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2010.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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28. The necessary length constraints on this article restrict us to a summary of our methodology here; for a fuller explanation of our approach, see A. N. Awan et al., Media and radicalization: political violence in the new media ecology (London: Routledge, forthcoming), and Hoskins and O'Loughlin, Television and terror.
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40. Hoskins and O'Loughlin, 'Remediating jihad'.
41. O'Loughlin et al., 'Keeping the extraordinary at a distance'.