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This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media
reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may
influence the conduct of modern military operations. War is a
complex phenomenon which raises numerous questions about the
organization of society that continue to challenge all those
involved in its study. Increasingly, this includes the need to
engage theoretically and empirically with the progressive collapse
between the ways in which wars are conducted and the manner in
which they are reported in the media. Drawing on the work of Erving
Goffman, Military Media Management offers a distinctly new approach
to our appreciation of the dynamic relationship between war and
media; one that is fundamentally a product of social relations
between those engaged in reporting war, and those conducting war
campaigns. By exploring how and why the military manage information
in particular ways, the text succeeds in providing a framework
through which wider sociological investigation of this relationship
can be understood. This book will be of much interest to students
of military and security studies, media studies, war and conflict
studies and IR in general.
This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media
reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may
influence the conduct of modern military operations. War is a
complex phenomenon which raises numerous questions about the
organization of society that continue to challenge all those
involved in its study. Increasingly, this includes the need to
engage theoretically and empirically with the progressive collapse
between the ways in which wars are conducted and the manner in
which they are reported in the media. Drawing on the work of Erving
Goffman, Military Media Management offers a distinctly new approach
to our appreciation of the dynamic relationship between war and
media; one that is fundamentally a product of social relations
between those engaged in reporting war, and those conducting war
campaigns. By exploring how and why the military manage information
in particular ways, the text succeeds in providing a framework
through which wider sociological investigation of this relationship
can be understood. This book will be of much interest to students
of military and security studies, media studies, war and conflict
studies and IR in general.
This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how
identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of
media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British
military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th
Anniversary of the Falklands war to uniquely offer multiple
perspectives on a single 'remembering' phenomenon. The study offers
an analysis of the convergence, interconnectedness and
interdependence of media and remembering, specifically the
production, interpretation and negotiation of remembering in the
media ecology. In so doing it not only examines the role of media
in the formation and sustaining of collective memory but also the
ways those who remember or are remembered in media texts become
implicated in these processes.
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
Spaces of War, War of Spaces provides a rich, international and
multi-disciplinary engagement with the convergence of war and media
through the conceptual lens of 'space'. 'Space' offers a profound,
challenging and original framework through which notions of
communication, embodiment, enactment, memory and power are
interrogated not only in terms of how media spaces (traditional,
digital, cultural, aesthetic, embodied, mnemonic) transform the
conduct, outcomes and consequences of war for all involved, but how
'war' actors (political, military, survivors, victims) recreate
space in a manner that is transformative across political, social,
cultural and personal spheres. Foregrounding the work of artists,
activists and practitioners alongside more traditional scholarly
approaches Spaces of War, War of Spaces engages with the
'messiness' of war and media through the convergence of practice
and theory, where showing and embodying is made explicit.
Spaces of War, War of Spaces provides a rich, international and
multi-disciplinary engagement with the convergence of war and media
through the conceptual lens of 'space'. 'Space' offers a profound,
challenging and original framework through which notions of
communication, embodiment, enactment, memory and power are
interrogated not only in terms of how media spaces (traditional,
digital, cultural, aesthetic, embodied, mnemonic) transform the
conduct, outcomes and consequences of war for all involved, but how
'war' actors (political, military, survivors, victims) recreate
space in a manner that is transformative across political, social,
cultural and personal spheres. Foregrounding the work of artists,
activists and practitioners alongside more traditional scholarly
approaches Spaces of War, War of Spaces engages with the
'messiness' of war and media through the convergence of practice
and theory, where showing and embodying is made explicit.
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