The violent image : insurgent propaganda and the new revolutionaries / Neville Bolt.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-415) and index.

Introduction ; What is propaganda of the deed (POTD)? ; Overview ; Different ways of reading POTD -- The Terrorist act as communicator ; Historical context ; POTD : twenty-first century communicator ; Propaganda ; Political marketing ; Strategic communications : the state ; Strategic communications : the insurgent -- Archipelago of memories ; Memory, myths and terror ; Constructing memory ; The outside world of the self ; The outside world of the group ; Myths maketh man ; POTD as metaphor -- Insurgent memory and narrative ; Symbols of resistance ; Irish republicanism ; Young Ireland ; Fenians ; Easter Rising 1916 ; Anglo-Irish and civil wars ; Mitigating atrocity -- The insurgent image ; Opportunity spaces and images ; Opportunity and speed ; Capturing attention ; Images as weapons ; Resonance, anticipation ; Unseen, unspoken ; Directing images ; Using frames to trigger action -- Television memory -- part 1. How is memory shaped across the media landscape? ; Ownership and political elites ; Audiences ; Creating memory -- part 2. How event and spectacle challenge media memory ; Event and spectacle in the media landscape -- LIVE-ness ; Turning weakness into strength -- Where the imaginary meets the virtual ; Surges, flows and scapes ; Networks in real and virtual worlds ; Social capital ; Self-generating communications ; Archipelagos and diasporas : defining the population ; Outmanoeuvring bureaucracies ; Strategic opportunism -- Spontaneous revolution ; The Arab uprisings and liberation-technology ; Dead men do talk ; Anonymity and leaderless revolution ; Spontaneity and revolution -- The new strategic operating concept ; Opening spaces at the fin-de-siecle ; Information and the military ; POTD as insurgent concept of operations ; IEDs, suicides and dirty bombs ; Information and 'new terrorism' -- Conclusion ; A new conceptual framework for POTD ; Broader reflections ; Implications for the future.

Neville Bolt investigates how today's revolutionaries have rejuvenated the 19th century 'propaganda of the deed' so that terrorism no longer simply goads states into overreacting, thereby losing legitimacy.