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Author Sylvia, Polly, 1977-

Title Cultural Messaging in the U.S. War on Terrorism : a Performative Approach to Security / Polly Sylvia.

Publication Info. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 151 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From autoethnography -- To performative methodology -- The body in performance -- Branding sense perception -- Mediated bodies.
Summary Sylvia focuses on the impact of the "If You See Something, Say Something" advertising campaign in the New York City subway system. She demonstrates how ideas regarding security and terrorism are socially constructed; it shows how the narrative of the war on terrorism as a political project was linked to the narrative of a local urban security campaign. Her thesis suggests that this advertising campaign perpetuates the politics of fear connected to the greater war on terrorism and that this advertising campaign is a mechanism of social control. Sylvia's research draws upon and supports Michel F.
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Subject War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Social aspects -- United States.
Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
Terrorism.
United States.
Social control -- United States.
Social control.
Communication -- United States.
Communication.
Advertising -- United States.
Advertising.
War on Terrorism (2001-2009)
Chronological Term 2001-2009
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Sylvia, Polly, 1977- Cultural messaging in the U.S. war on terrorism. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2013 9781593325350 (DLC) 2012040192 (OCoLC)810123503
ISBN 9781593326319 (electronic book)
1593326319 (electronic book)
9781593325350
1593325355