Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

Des Freedman is Reader in Communications and Cultural Studies in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the co-author (with James Curran and Natalie Fenton) of Misunderstanding the Internet (forthcoming 2011), author of The Politics of Media Policy (2008) and The Television Policies of the Labour Party, 1951-2001 (2003) and co-editor (with Daya Thussu) of War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (2003). He is an editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication and a member of the research team in the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre. Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. He is the Founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication. Among his main publications are: Electronic Empires (1998); International Communication - Continuity and Change, second edition (2006); War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (2003); Media on the Move - Global Flow and Contra-flow (2007); News as Entertainment (2007) and Internationalizing Media Studies (2009). He is series editor for two Routledge book series: Internationalizing Media Studies and Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies.