Introduction: terrorism and contemporary mediascapes – reanimating research on media and terrorism

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Notes

1. Convergence can also refer to the way that media ownership is becoming concentrated through the merger of corporations that historically operated in different media sectors (e.g. the merger between AOL and Time-Warner in 2000).

2. The conference website is http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/TNM/index.html [Accessed 20 August 2012]. Another selection of papers from the conference was published as a special issue of the journal Media, War & Conflict, entitled ‘Terrorism in Old and New Media’, earlier this year (5 (1), 2012).

3. More information about the text is available from http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/1839/ Some sample images from a draft of the book are available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/bin-laden-comic/index.html (both Accessed 20 August 2012).