Volume 20 Issue 3 (2002)
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Catching the Wave: German Media on September 11
This paper describes reactions in the German publication Der Spiegel to the attacks of September 11. The paper starts by describing the live reporting in the German media and then…
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Something’s Happened: Fictional Media as a Coping Mechanism
By the afternoon of September 11, entertainment executives were rushing to remove media products containing ‘inappropriate’ references from American television and movie screens. While references to terrorism were the starting…
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Globalization isn’t New; Anti-globalization isn’t Either: September 11 and the History of Nations
The September 11 attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center reveals, among other things, a colossal failure of intelligence and radical deficiencies in our understanding of communications in…
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Is there a Bin Laden in the Audience? Considering the Events of September 11 as a Possible Boomerang Effect of the Globalization of US Mass Communication
The images of America exported by entertainment and information media companies have created very high expectations in foreign audiences. Some recipients overhearing American media want to immigrate to the US…