{"product_id":"proto-state-media-systems-carol-winkler-9780197568033","title":"Proto-State Media Systems: The Digital Rise of Al-Qaeda and Isis","description":"\u003cem\u003eProto-State Media Systems\u003c\/em\u003e explores how decisions by contemporary violent extremist groups create, develop, and sustain media systems. Focusing on the cases of al-Qaeda and ISIS, this book showcases how standard media systems theory fails to fully explain the media systems of these organizations as a basis for building a revised theoretical lens that comprehends these emergent systems in the 21st century global media context. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUtilizing constitutive and online networking theories, Winkler and El Damanhoury explore how militant proto-states create lasting, adaptable, identity-based systems that work to attract and sustain the attention of followers. The groups' appeals to transhistorical and transpatial identity formations in their media products reveal new insights about community formation and how we analyze media systems in the proto-state context. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecognizing that nation-states no longer exercise monopoly control over online and offline media systems, \u003cem\u003eProto-State Media Systems\u003c\/em\u003e investigates how certain violent extremist groups bent on establishing sustained territorial and governing control over populations have revolutionized the media environment of the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carol Winkler, Kareem El Damanhoury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197568033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197568033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.21w x 0.77d","brand":"Carol Winkler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981759742207,"sku":"9780197568033","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4669a64d-bfd5-4833-92b7-9f196e39f0bc.jpg?v=1683257382","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proto-state-media-systems-carol-winkler-9780197568033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}