War and media : the emergence of diffused war / Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin.
Material type: TextDescription: ix, 227 pages : illustrationsISBN:- 9780745638492
- 074563849X
- 809.9407 HOS-W
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809.94 SEB Style in Language / | 809.9407 APP-F Free expression is no offence | 809.9407 HAR-A Audience-citizens: the media, public knowledge and interpretive practice | 809.9407 HOS-W War and media : the emergence of diffused war / | 809.9407 SUB-T Tracking the media : interpretations of mass media discourses in India and Pakistan / | 809.941 CAR Keywords in Language and Literacy | 809.95 CRI The Critical Moment: essays on the nature of literature |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-217) and indexes.
Introduction: Diffused war ; The two phases of mediatization ; Conclusion -- Images: Introduction : do images of war show or hide? ; Photograph and flux ; mediality ; Emergence ; Saddam Hussein's execution ; Conclusion -- Compassion: Introduction : what is compassion fatigue? ; Why news values keep some stories off the radar ; Exploring spectator-sufferer relations ; How do media enable or restrict compassion? ; Conclusion -- Witness: Introduction ; Representation and the truth of war ; Witnessing ; Conclusion -- Genocide: Introduction ; Premediation and the Holocaust ; Media templates ; The Trnopolje Camp images ; Towards an ethics of images ; Emergence -- Memory: The diffusion of media and memory ; The second memory boom ; Media and Holocaust memory ; From witness to embodied memories ; The third memory boom -- Vectors: Vectors and globalization ; Controlling vectors ; Emergent vectors ; Conclusion -- Radicalization: The mediatization of radicalization ; Diffuse relations between cause and effect ; Uncertainty for policymakers and journalists enables "hypersecurity" to emerge ; Conclusion -- Legitimacy: Introduction : legitimacy, representation, discourse ; The power of representations ; Diffuse war axes of representation ; Translation and legitimacy ; Conclusion -- Methods: Identifying effects amid ubiquitous media ; How do we analyse media practices? ; How do we analyse discursive linking : nexus analysis ; Conclusion.
The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin here provide a timely, comprehensive and highly readable survey of the field of war and media. War is diffused through a complex mesh of our everyday media. Paradoxically, this both facilitates and contains the presence and power of enemies near and far. The conventions of so-called traditional warfare have been splintered by the availability and connectivity of the principal locus of war today: the electronic and digital media. Hoskins and O'Loughlin identify and illuminate the conditions of what they term "diffused war" and the new challenges it raises for the actors who wage and counter warfare, for their agents and mechanisms of the new media and for mass publics. This book offers an invaluable review of the key literature and presents a fresh approach to the understanding of the dynamic relationships between war and media. It will be welcomed by a broad range of students taking courses on war and media and related modules, especially in media, communication and cultural studies, politics and international relations, sociology, journalism, and security studies. -- Publisher description.
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