A social semiotics analysis of Islamic State's use of beheadings: Images of power, masculinity, spectacle and propaganda
Despite their predominant role in terrorist practices, beheadings have not received sufficient theoretical or empirical attention. The aim of this paper is to explore images of executions by employing social semiotics theory and visual analysis and assess their function. Beheadings by the Islamic St...
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