Preface -- Televising the 'war on terrorism'--the myths of morality / by Daya Kishan Thussu -- Mediatizing the global war on terror : television's public eye / by Simon Cottle -- Prime time terror. The case of La Jetée and 12 monkeys / by Marion Herz -- Mediated terrorism in comparative perspective : Spanish press coverage of 9/11 vs. coverage of Basque terrorism / by Teresa Sádaba and Teresa La Porte.

National politics of belonging and conflicting masculinities : race and the representation of recent wars / by Antje Schuhmann -- Terrorism and the exploitation of the new media / by Bruce Klopfenstein -- Critical media theory, democratic communication, and global conflict / by Todd Fraley and Elli Lester Roushanzamir -- Terrorism, public relations and propaganda / by Nancy Snow -- September 11, social theory, and democratic politics / by Douglas Kellner -- International communication after terrorism : towards a postcolonial dialectic / by Anandam P. Kavoori.