Orgad, Shani. 2012. Imagining Ourselves: Representations of the Nation. Ch. 3 extract in Media Representation and the Global Imagination (81-90). Cambridge, UK: Polity.
- "The Internet and satellite cross-border channels, for example, CNN International, BBC World and AI Jazeera, become significant storytellers that compete over the symbolic construction of the nation with other local, national, regional, transnational and global players."
- Pictures released from the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq - horrible inhumane treatment of Arab prisoners by U.S. military police
- Depicts U.S. citizens treating the "other" as less than human furthering the symbolic distancing between us and them.
- Also sparked an unsettling image in Americans minds that "our boys" are cable of evil. This is not only a negative global representation of the Arab prisoners, but also of American soldiers.
- Now other nations are questioning the methods of U.S. troops and this causes distrust among many Arab/Muslim nations.
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