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Staying Positive in a Dystopian Future: A Novel Dissociation Between Personal and Collective Cognition by Shrikanth, Sushmita, Szpunar, Piotr M., Szpunar, Karl K.

“…The future of groups of people is a topic of broad interest in society and academia. Nonetheless, relatively little is known about the manner in which people…”
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The preemptive voice of enemy images: The before-and-after motif in news coverage of women homegrown terrorists by Szpunar, Piotr M

“…This essay is about images of the enemy. But a particular enemy and a peculiar motif of representation: the woman homegrown terrorist and the before-and-after…”
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Memory politics in the future tense: Exceptionalism, race, and insurrection in America by Szpunar, Piotr M

“…The grounding myth of American collective memory is built on the idea of America as a promise, what it shall be. Crises place futures in doubt. Against these…”
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Communication and (Un)Inspired Terror: Toward a Theory of Phatic Violence by Szpunar, Piotr M

“…Abstract Terrorism has long been theorized as a communicative act. Absent in the array of theories is an adequate consideration of violence committed by third…”
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Promnesic futures: Technology, climate, déjà vu by Szpunar, Piotr M

“…What is the function of the past in visions of the future? For critics, futures built on recycled futures-past, at best, signal a failure of imagination and,…”
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Soft news in soft war: Maximum pressure, Voice of America, and outrage media in Iran by Modjtahedi, Gilda, Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…The US Maximum Pressure campaign, a conglomeration of diplomatic, economic, and military sticks, was ostensibly designed to force Iran into renegotiating the…”
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Collective future thought: Concept, function, and implications for collective memory studies by Szpunar, Piotr M, Szpunar, Karl K

“…This article introduces and develops the concept of “collective future thought” and its implications for the interdisciplinary field of (collective) memory…”
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Premediating predisposition: informants, entrapment, and connectivity in counterterrorism by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…The sting operation is a mainstay of FBI counterterrorism strategy. Critics charge that this practice, in which an informant lures vulnerable individuals into…”
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The I’s of the Informant: Memoirs of Surveillance Society by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…The informant is both a controversial medium of security and a maligned cultural figure. Their actions and stories about their actions are integral nodes in…”
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The futures of anticipatory reason: Contingency and speculation in the sting operation by Hong, Sun-ha, Szpunar, Piotr M

“…This article examines invocations of the future in contemporary security discourse and practice. This future constitutes not a temporal zone of events to come,…”
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A guileful ruse: ISIS, media, and tactics of appropriation by Szpunar, Piotr M

“…When Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in the throes of territorial demise, laid claim to the deadliest mass shooting in US history, the 2017 Las Vegas…”
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The horror at Fort Hood: disseminating American exceptionalism by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…American exceptionalism – the constitutive myth of American national identity – has been disseminated through literature, film, and foreign policy. This…”
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Western journalism’s ‘Other’: The legacy of the Cold War in the comparative study of journalism by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…In 1995, when discussing the critiques of the New York Times made by academics and pundits, Michael Schudson stated that the newspaper has never been anything…”
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Monuments, mundanity and memory: Altering ‘place’ and ‘space’ at the National War Memorial (Canada) by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…On 1 July 2006, three youths were photographed urinating on the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada. This event affected Canadian collective memory in a…”
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Journalism ethics and Levinas' Third: interruption in a world of multiple Others by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…This paper develops a theory of journalism ethics centered on the concept of interruption. Interruption provides a space in which the "Other" can speak; an…”
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Collective memory and the stranger: remembering and forgetting the 1918 Finnish Civil War by Szpunar, Piotr M

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NEITHER 'NON-'NOR 'BECOMING': American Polonia and the need to reformulate whiteness by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…The concept of whiteness is seductive; it strikes a chord and resonates, highlighting what was long ignored in the history of immigrants in America. However,…”
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ISIS beyond the spectacle: communication media, networked publics, terrorism by Semati, Mehdi, Szpunar, Piotr M.

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From the Other to the Double: Identity in Conflict and the Boston Marathon Bombing by Szpunar, Piotr M.

“…Mediated representations of identity have long been mobilized to energize war efforts. While conflict has changed significantly in the past 70 years, thinking…”
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From the Other to the Double: Identity in Conflict and the Boston Marathon Bombing: From Other to Double by Szpunar, Piotr M.

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