War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 / Edition 1

by Daya Thussu, Des Freedman

Overview

‘No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media's relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power' - John PilgerThis book examines the changing contours of media coverage of war and considers the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761943136
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/02/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A Ph D in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication, a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng, 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014, he was honored with a “Distinguished Scholar Award” by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication.

Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is co-director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and a founding member of the Media Reform Coalition.

His publications include, as editor, Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian (Pluto, 2021) and, as author, The Contradictions of Media Power (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Politics of Media Policy (Polity 2008), Misunderstanding the Internet (Routledge, 2016, co-authored with James Curran and Natalie Fenton) and The Media Manifesto (Polity, 2020, co-authored with Natalie Fenton, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik). He has co-edited books on a wide range of themes including media, racism and terrorism, the politics of higher education, media reform and the future of television.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman
PART ONE: COMMUNICATING CONFLICT IN A GLOBAL WORLD
Contextualizing Conflict - Aijaz Ahmad
The US ‘War on Terrorism'
Watching What we Say - Ted Magder
Global Communication in a Time of Fear
Understanding not Empathy - Jean Seaton
PART TWO: NEW DIMENSIONS OF MANAGING CONFLICT
Information Warfare in an Age of Globalization - Frank Webster
The Counter-Revolution in Military Affairs - John Downey and Graham Murdock
The Globalization of Guerilla Warfare
Spinning the War - Robin Brown
Political Communications, Information Operations and Public Diplomacy in the War on Terrorism
‘We Know Where You Are' - Philip Taylor
Psychological Operations Media During /f003Enduring Freedom
PART THREE: REPORTING CONFLICT IN AN ERA OF 24//7 NEWS
Live TV and Bloodless Deaths - Daya Kishan Thussu
War, Infotainment and 24//7 News
Israel//Palestinian Conflict - Greg Philo, Alison Gilmour, Susanna Rust, Etta Gaskell and Lucy West
TV News and Public Understanding
Mapping the /f003Al-Jazeera/f001 Phenomenon - Noureddine Miladi
PART FOUR: REPRESENTATIONS OF CONFLICT - 9//11 AND BEYOND
War and the Entertainment Industries - Jonathan Burston
New Research Priorities in an Era of Cyber-Patriotism
The New Media Environment, Internet Chatrooms and Public Discourse After 9//11 - Bruce A Williams
The Media, ‘War on Terrorism', and the Circulation of Non-Knowledge - Cynthia Weber
Icons and Invisibility - Jayne Rodgers
Gender, Myth, 9//11
PART FIVE: CONFLICT AND THE CULTURES OF JOURNALISM
Journalists under Fire - Howard Tumber and Marina Prentoulis
Subcultures, Objectivity and Emotional Literacy
Journalists and War - Nik Gowing
The Troubling New Tensions Post 9//11
Conflict and Control-Afghanistan and the 24-hour News Cycle - Kieran Baker
In the Fog of War... - Yvonne Ridley
Need for Context - Gordon Corera
The Complexity of Foreign Reporting

Editorial Reviews

"The editors provide helpful context in an introduction. . . . There are insightful discussions about the historical and contemporary relationships between the media and the military, as well as the journalist's changing role in society and the changing definitions of war, conflict, and terrorism."

CHOICE

"No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media's relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power "

- John Pilger

"A most timely book, with many valuable insights "

- Martin Bell O.B.E

"It has long been known that the outcome of war is deeply influenced by the battle to win 'hearts and minds'. This book provides a stimulating set of perspectives which combine the analyses of prominent academics with the experiences of leading journalists "

- Professor Tom Woodhouse, University of Bradford

"This volume represents an all-star cast of authors who have a tremendous amount of knowledge about media and world conflict. One of its strengths is that it doesn't focus entirely narrowly on media, but puts the discussion of media issues in the context of changes in the world order in military doctrine "

- Professor Daniel C. Hallin, University of California

"This book comes just in time. A coherent and wide-ranging collection of data, analyses and insights that help our understanding of the complex interaction between communication and conflict. A major intellectual contribution to critical thinking about the early 21st century "

- Cees J. Hamelink, Professor International Communication, University of Amsterdam

From the Publisher

"The editors provide helpful context in an introduction. . . . There are insightful discussions about the historical and contemporary relationships between the media and the military, as well as the journalist's changing role in society and the changing definitions of war, conflict, and terrorism. "

Choice Magazine