Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication: Iraq, USA, UK

by Vian Bakir

Overview

Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826430083
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/27/2010
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Vian Bakir is Senior Lecturer in Journalism, in the School of Creative Studies &Media, at Bangor University, UK.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsGlossaryChapter 1 - Web-based Participatory Media, Strategic Political Communication and Sousveillance - Web-based Participatory Media and Strategic Political Communication - Strategic Political Communication in the West and the Middle East - From Surveillance to Sousveillance - The Case StudiesChapter 2 - Bearing Witness during the 2003 Iraq War: Embeds and Bloggers - Introduction - Political Environment - Media Environment - Identifying with the Embeds - Identifying with the Iraqis: Salam Pax - ConclusionChapter 3 - Controlling the Military's Image: Abu Ghraib (2004) and Is this the Way to Armadillo (2005) - Introduction - Political Environment - Media Environment - Abu Ghraib: The Downward Spiral of the Military's Image - Is this the Way to Armadillo? - ConclusionChapter 4 - Controlling Saddam Hussein's Image: His Capture (2003) and Execution (2006) - Introduction - Political Environment - Media Environment - Controlled Image: The Capture of Saddam Hussein - Losing Control: The Execution of Saddam Hussein - ConclusionChapter 5 - Sousveillance and Strategic Political Communication: Developments & Implications - Introduction - Political Environment 2007-9 - Media Environment 2007-9 - Towards Sousveillance Cultures - Implications for Strategic Political Communication - The Future? ReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

A timely and much-needed study on the challenges that participatory media pose to strategic political communication, which offers a novel comparative perspective on Western and Middle Eastern cases as well as original theoretical insights on the social dialectics of power and resistance- surveillance and sousveillance.

Lilie Chouliaraki, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

The concept of 'sousveillance' proves to be an intriguingly provocative entry point into a fascinating set of debates. Vian Bakir's inspired critique delves deeply into a wide range of pressing issues at the heart of current innovations in participatory media.

Professor Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University, UK

This is a scholarly, well-researched book that casts new light on one of the most important aspects of the media of conflict, the rise of voices from below. Vian Bakir has put together a series of meticulously detailed case studies on how the use of social media changed during the US and UK invasion and occupation of Iraq. By placing individuals' blog entries and digital images against a close reading of the political and media contexts in the west and Iraq, she takes us well beyond a celebration of sousveillance to a critical appreciation of the role of social media in both disrupting and furthering the political control of communication. Donald Matheson, senior lecturer in media and communication, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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