Dr Jared Ahmad
BA (Salford); MA, PhD (Manchester)
School of Journalism, Media and Communication
Lecturer in Journalism, Politics and Communication
Programme Director MA International Public and Political Communication
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- Profile
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Jared joined the school in September 2017 as a Lecturer in Journalism, Politics and Communication. He is the director of the MA degree International Public and Political Communication and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Jared also has a PGCert in Teaching and Learning and previously taught at the University of Liverpool and University of Manchester.
Jared鈥檚 research focuses on questions of identity, representation and power in regard to non-state terrorism, with a particular focus on Salafi-Jihadi movements such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. His latest book, , was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2018. It explored the BBC鈥檚 portrayal of the al-Qaeda terror threat over a 10-year period (2001-2011), combining rigorous multimodal discourse analysis of news content alongside interviews with senior editors and journalists from the organisation. A summary of the book can be read on
Jared has also published in leading international journals such as Critical Studies on Terrorism, Media, War and Conflict and International Journal of Communication. His research has been funded by the University of Manchester and the University of 91探花.
- Research interests
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Jared鈥檚 research interests are interdisciplinary and are located at the intersection between cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and (visual) political communication. In particular, he is interested in questions of identity, representation and power in regard to non-state terrorist groups, alongside the broader communicative interactions that take place between different actors (politicians, journalists and citizens) when re-imagining and re-mediating terror threats.
His most recent work has focused on the visual communication strategies employed by the Islamic State in their image operations. He shows how Islamic State propagandists seek to appropriate time-worn stereotypes about , together with discourses of nostalgia and , in an attempt to exploit and amplify audience perceptions of the group. Jared has also written about the way British television news providers sought to re-imagine the Islamic State in the aftermath of the , and the way journalists helped perpetuate an 鈥渆lite鈥-centred understanding of the threat, thus legitimising subsequent airstrikes in Syria. Jared's forthcoming book seeks to draw these different strands of research together and will be entitled Imagining the Caliphate: Analysing Public, Political and Popular Representations of the Islamic State.
- Publications
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Books
- . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
- 'Islamic State' in Translation: Four Atrocities, Multiple Narratives. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 17, 2452-2454.
- Picturing the 鈥淗ordes of Hated Barbarians鈥:
Islamic State Propaganda, (Self)Orientalism & Strategic Self-Othering. International Journal of Communication, 16, 2935-2957.
- . Critical Studies on Terrorism, 13(4), 568-590.
- . Media, War and Conflict, 12(4), 411-434.
- . Critical Studies on Terrorism, 9(3), 433-454.
- . Media War & Conflict, 8(2), 281-283.
Chapters
- In Furneaux H & Greig M (Ed.), Enemy Encounters in Modern Warfare (pp. 287-311). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Islamic State, strategic self-othering and the weaponisation of propaganda images In Veneti A & Lilleker D (Ed.), Research Handbook on Visual Politics Edward Elgar Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 141-165). Springer International Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 1-20). Springer International Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 167-192). Springer International Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 21-58). Springer International Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 85-109). Springer International Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 111-139). Springer International Publishing
- , The BBC, The 'War on Terror' and the Discursive Construction of Terrorism (pp. 59-83). Springer International Publishing
- , Seen and Unseen: Visual Cultures of Imperialism (pp. 53-78). BRILL
Book reviews
- . Global Media and Communication, 9(1), 74-76.
Reports
- Terrorism and the Media in Britain: A Brief Guide
Website content
- 9/11: how politicians and the media turned terrorism into an Islamic issue.
- Envisioning Terror: Representations of Al Qaeda on the BBC.
- . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Teaching activities
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Jared is course leader for MA International Public and Political Communication (IPPC) and module leader for JNL6210 Research Methods and JNL6000 International Visual Public and Political Communication.
- PhD supervision
Jared is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:
- Media discourses and representations of the East, Islam, terrorism and political violence
- The politics/processes of terrorist (self)representation, knowledge and power
- Violent Jihadi or far-right extremist propaganda
- Terrorism and visual political communication