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Constructing America's War Culture - Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (Hardcover)
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Constructing America's War Culture - Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (Hardcover)
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In 1927, political scientist Harold Lasswell wrote about the
strategies employed by the American government to sell the benefits
of participating in World War I to a reluctant public. In
Propaganda Techniques in World War I, Lasswell discussed the
'manipulative symbols to manipulate opinions and attitudes' (p 9).
Ever since then, all wars have involved specialists who attempt to
control the way the media report about war and the way media
contribute to shaping public opinion. This collection of essays
discusses how media have 'packaged' the war in Iraq. The chapters
in this collection explore the way the media have presented the war
to us by telling us human interest stories, supporting public
policies, and crafting a narrative that supports the war. Some
chapters focus on the way the Bush administration has actively
promoted and attempted to control information; others tell of how
the media have either been complicit in supporting the dominant
narrative, or how the public has used the images in the media to
negotiate attitudes toward the war, terrorism, and international
relations. All of the chapters discuss the relationships among
conflict, political agendas, the power of media, and the way
audiences use media to construct attitudes, beliefs, and ultimately
a sense of history about the war. Coming from the perspective of
communication studies, situates the multi-dimensional aspects of
war, terrorism, public policy, media, and story-telling within the
context of creating a consensually assembled image of what the war
in Iraq is all about. This book will be of interest to
undergraduate students as well as scholars of communication,
history, sociology, political science, and American studies, and it
will be an excellent resource both for classroom use as well as the
general public."
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