Media And Political Conflict

Author : Gadi Wolfsfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521589673

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Media and Political Conflict by Gadi Wolfsfeld Pdf

The news media have become the central arena for political conflicts today. It is, therefore, not surprising that the role of the news media in political conflicts has received a good deal of public attention in recent years. Media and Political Conflict provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which news media do and do not become active participants in these conflicts. The author's 'political contest' model provides an alternative approach to this important issue. The best way to understand the role of the news media in politics, he argues, is to view the competition over the news media as part of a larger and more significant contest for political control. The book is divided into two parts. While the first is devoted to developing the theoretical model, the second employs this approach to analyse the role of the news media in three conflicts: the Gulf war, the Palestinian intifada, and the attempt by the Israeli right wing to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

Author : Jens Eder,Charlotte Klonk
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526108654

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Image operations by Jens Eder,Charlotte Klonk Pdf

Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life. Balancing theoretical reflections with in-depth case studies, it brings together renowned scholars and activists from different fields to offer a multifaceted critical perspective on a crucial aspect of contemporary visual culture.

Author : Lisa Schirch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000378917

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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy by Lisa Schirch Pdf

Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America as well as Northern Ireland. Each author maps an array of peacebuilding solutions to social media threats, including coordinated action by civil society, governments and tech companies to protect human minds, relationships and institutions. Solutions presented include inoculating society with a new digital literacy agenda, designing technology for positive social impacts, and regulating technology to prohibit the worst behaviours. A must-read both for political scientists and policymakers trying to understand the impact of social media, and media studies scholars looking for a global perspective.

Author : Jacinta Maweu,Admire Mare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000361421

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Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa by Jacinta Maweu,Admire Mare Pdf

This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context. The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either ‘good’ (as symbolized by peace journalism) or ‘bad’ (as exemplified by war journalism), but this book moves beyond this binary to highlight the ‘in-between’ role that the media often plays in times of conflict. The volume does not only focus on the relationship between mass media, conflict and peacebuilding processes but it broadens its scope by critically analysing the dynamic and emergent roles of popular and digital media platforms in a continent where the semi-literate and oral communities still rely heavily on popular communication platforms to get news and information. Whilst social media platforms have been hailed for their assumed democratic and digital dividends, this book does not only focus on these positive aspects but also shines a light on dark forms of participation which are fuelling racial, gender, ethnic, political and religious conflicts in highly polarized and stratified societies. Highlighting the many ways in which traditional, digital and popular media can be used to both escalate conflicts and promote peacebuilding, this volume will be a useful resource for students, researchers and civil society groups interested in peace and conflict studies, journalism and media studies in different contexts within Africa.

Author : Jens Eder,Charlotte Klonk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PSYCHOLOGY
ISBN : 1526120984

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Image Operations by Jens Eder,Charlotte Klonk Pdf

Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life.

Author : Cottle, Simon
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335214525

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Mediatized Conflict by Cottle, Simon Pdf

We live in times that generate diverse conflicts; we also live in times when conflicts are increasingly played out and performed in the media. Mediatized Conflict explores the powered dynamics, contested representations and consequences of media conflict reporting. It examines how the media today do not simply report or represent diverse situations of conflict, but actively 'enact' and 'perform' them. This important book brings together the latest research findings and theoretical discussions to develop an encompassing, multidimensional and sophisticated understanding of the social complexities, political dynamics and cultural forms of mediatized conflicts in the world today. Case studies include: Anti-war protests and anti-globalization demonstrations Mediatized public crises centering on issues of 'race' and racism War journalism and peace journalism Risk society and the environment The politics of outrage and terror spectacle post 9/11 Identity politics and cultural recognition This is essential reading for Media Studies students and all those interested in understanding how, why, and with what impacts media report on diverse conflicts in the world today.

Author : Piers Robinson,Philip Seib,Romy Frohlich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317914303

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Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security by Piers Robinson,Philip Seib,Romy Frohlich Pdf

This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies. The academic sub-field of media and conflict has developed and expanded greatly over the past two decades. Operating across a diverse range of academic disciplines, academics are studying the impact the media has on governments pursuing war, responses to humanitarian crises and violent political struggles, and the role of the media as a facilitator of, and a threat to, both peace building and conflict prevention. This handbook seeks to consolidate existing knowledge by linking the body of conflict and media studies with work in security studies. The handbook is arranged into five parts: Theory and Principles. Media, the State and War Media and Human Security Media and Policymaking within the Security State New Issues in Security and Conflict and Future Directions For scholars of security studies, this handbook will provide a key point of reference for state of the art scholarship concerning the media-security nexus; for scholars of communication and media studies, the handbook will provide a comprehensive mapping of the media-conflict field.

Author : Philipp Budka,Birgit Bräuchler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789206838

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Theorising Media and Conflict by Philipp Budka,Birgit Bräuchler Pdf

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Through epistemological and methodological reflections and the analyses of various case studies from around the globe, this volume provides evidence for the co-constitutiveness of media and conflict and contributes to their consolidation as a distinct area of scholarship. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.

Author : Romy Fröhlich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351685399

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Media in War and Armed Conflict by Romy Fröhlich Pdf

This book focuses on the social process of conflict news production and the emergence of public discourse on war and armed conflict. Its contributions combine qualitative and quantitative approaches through interview studies and computer-assisted content analysis and apply a unique comparative and holistic approach over time, across different cycles of six conflicts in three regions of the world, and across different types of domestic, international and transnational media. In so doing, it explores the roles of public communication through traditional media, social media, strategic communication, and public relations in informing and involving national and international actors in conflict prevention, resolution and peace-keeping. It provides a key point of reference for creative, innovative, and state-of-the-art empirical research on media and armed conflict.

Author : Ellen Rutten,Julie Fedor,Vera Zvereva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136186417

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Memory, Conflict and New Media by Ellen Rutten,Julie Fedor,Vera Zvereva Pdf

This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country generate fierce reactions in others. In this transnational memory war, digital media form a pivotal discursive space – one that provides speakers with radically new commemorative tools. Uniting contributions by leading scholars in the field, Memory, Conflict and New Media is the first book-length publication to analyse how new media serve as a site of political and national identity building in post-socialist states. The book also examines how the construction of online identity is irreversibly affected by thinking about the past in this geopolitical domain. By highlighting post-socialist memory’s digital mediations and digital memory’s transcultural scope, the volume succeeds in a twofold aim: to deepen and refine both (post-socialist) memory theory and digital-memory studies. This book will be of much interest to students of media studies, post-Soviet studies, Eastern European Politics, memory studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Gadi Wolfsfeld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136887680

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Making Sense of Media and Politics by Gadi Wolfsfeld Pdf

Politics is above all a contest, and the news media are the central arena for viewing that competition. One of the central concerns of political communication has to do with the myriad ways in which politics has an impact on the news media and the equally diverse ways in which the media influences politics. Both of these aspects in turn weigh heavily on the effects such political communication has on mass citizens. In Making Sense of Media and Politics, Gadi Wolfsfeld introduces readers to the most important concepts that serve as a framework for examining the interrelationship of media and politics: political power can usually be translated into power over the news media when authorities lose control over the political environment they also lose control over the news there is no such thing as objective journalism (nor can there be) the media are dedicated more than anything else to telling a good story the most important effects of the news media on citizens tend to be unintentional and unnoticed. By identifying these five key principles of political communication, the author examines those who package and send political messages, those who transform political messages into news, and the effect all this has on citizens. The result is a brief, engaging guide to help make sense of the wider world of media and politics and an essential companion to more in-depths studies of the field.

Author : Bernd Hirschberger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783839455098

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External Communication in Social Media During Asymmetric Conflicts by Bernd Hirschberger Pdf

Social media increasingly shapes the way in which we perceive conflicts and conflict parties abroad. Conflict parties, therefore, have started using social media strategically to influence public opinion abroad. This book explores the phenomenon by examining, (1) which strategies of external communication conflict parties use during asymmetric conflicts and (2) what shapes the selection of these communication strategies. In a comprehensive case study of the conflict in Israel and Palestine, Bernd Hirschberger shows that the selection of strategies of external communication is shaped by the (asymmetric) conflict structure.

Author : Idil Osman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319577920

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Media, Diaspora and the Somali Conflict by Idil Osman Pdf

This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities. Media, Diaspora and Conflict demonstrates a previously overlooked complexity in diasporic media by using the Somali conflict as a case study to indicate how the media explores conflict in respective homelands, in addition to revealing its participatory role in transnationalising conflicts. By illustrating the familiar narratives associated with diasporic media and utilising a combination of Somali websites and television, focus groups with diaspora community members and interviews with journalists and producers, the potentials and restrictions of diasporic media and how it relates to homelands in conflict are explored.

Author : Mikkel Fugl Eskjær,Stig Hjarvard,Mette Mortensen
Publisher : Global Crises and the Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Communication, International
ISBN : 1433128098

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The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts by Mikkel Fugl Eskjær,Stig Hjarvard,Mette Mortensen Pdf

This book engages with the mediatized dynamics of political, military and cultural conflicts. The contributors develop new theoretical arguments and a series of empirical studies that are essential reading for students and scholars interested in the complex roles of media in contemporary conflicts.

Author : Andrew Arno,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1984-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008398987

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The News Media In National And International Conflict by Andrew Arno,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf