Canada: Transmediality as News Media and Religious Radicalization
Chapter 7 in FREEMAN, M. and W. PROCTOR (Eds.), Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth, London : Routledge, pp.121-139. (2018)
By M-E. Carignan and S. Marcil-Morin
Chapter 7, by Marie-Eve Carignan and Sara Marcil-Morin, analyzes the media coverage of the terrorist attacks of Canada in 2014 in order to understand the role of transmediality in the radicalization of Canada. Politically, these attacks were linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant activities in the media, and Carignan draws on this political context to examine the implications for transmediality in terms of how we understand radicalization and terrorism in Canada. Specifically, this chapter outlines the media coverage of the shooting that took place on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill on 22 October 2014. Carignan and Marcil-Morin argue that the way that traditional media related what was said on social media, including by the perpetrator, which was integrated with the live broadcasting of a speech to the nation by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, raises questions about the coverage of the events as a transmedia experience. In short, the chapter takes this situation as a jumping-off point for assessing how transmediality is implicit in citizens’ understanding of terrorism and religious radicalization in this country.”
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