Wars are now mediated in unprecedented ways and through a variety
of communicative forms. Correspondingly, there is an increasing
awareness among those involved in war of the need to gauge and
manage what is communicated. Communicating War: Media, Memory and
Military contextualises these developments by locating the
emergence of recent wars and terrorist activity in a wider frame of
global socio-political change, highlighting the social, political
and historical aspects of 'communicating war'. This includes: . the
remembering and forgetting of wars through cultures of collective
memory and media selectivity; . the organization, practice and
culture of media institutions in the mediation of war information;
. and the strategic use of information by military institutions and
terrorist organizations in the execution of war and terrorist acts.
Remaining sensitive to the complexities of conflict, the book moves
beyond a focus on UK and US interventions and reflects upon the
communication of war in relation to all forms of conflict,
particularly terrorism and under reported civil conflicts. Adopting
a multi-disciplinary approach, Communicating War: Memory, Media,
Military will be of interest to students in journalism, media, war
and peace studies, international relations and international
politics. Contributors include practitioners from within the
journalistic and military communities and international scholars
from a broad range of social sciences: Stuart Allan, David
Altheide, Chris Atton, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Nico Carpentier, Neal
Curtis, Richard Keeble, Andrew Hoskins, Makram Khoury-Machool,
Sarah Maltby, Donald Matheson, Lara Pawson, Ron Schleifer, Martin
Shaw, Angus Taverner, John Tulloch, Howard Tumber and Jeremy
Tunstall. - REVIEWERS COMMENTS - "Few topics of media research
affect us more personally, and emotionally, than how media
represents war, and the military's partly hidden role in that
process. Communicating War is a wide-ranging and important
contribution to that debate, which also has the advantage of being
right up-todate. Essential reading " Nick Couldry, Professor of
Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London "We live
in an age where the relationship between war and communications
media is more complex and more urgent than ever before.
Communicating War is, therefore, to be welcomed. Its rich
collection sets the agenda, as does the War and Media Network, from
which it emerges. Crucially, the collection reminds us of that
which is 'forgotten', which can be as important in the war-media
relationship today as those things embedded in memory." James Gow,
Professor of International Peace and Security, Kings College London
"A timely and hugely valuable contribution to the scholarly
literature on news about conflict and war. The range of
contributors, and the variety of themes covered, make this
collection essential reading for students and researchers of
conflict reporting in the post-9/11 world." Brian McNair, Professor
of Journalism and Communication, University of Strathclyde.
"Communicating War is a timely collection of great diversity,
bringing both historical depth and theoretical sophistication to a
range of urgent contemporary debates about the media's role in
war." Philip Hammond, Reader in Media and Communications, London
South Bank University
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