'The vermin have struck again': Dehumanizing the enemy in post 9/11 media representations

Media, War and Conflict

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 152-167

  Steuter, Erin ^a   Wills, Deborah ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

dehumanization; enemy construction; journalism; media; metaphors; war

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955082789     PISSN: 17506352     EISSN: 17506360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750635210360082     Document Type: Review

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