The dynamics of mediatized conflicts
By: Mikkel Fugl Eskjær, Stig Hjarvard & Mette Mortensen, editors
Series: Global crises and the media -- Vol. 3
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781433128097; 9781433128080; 9781453916209
Subjects: Globalization; Mass media and culture; Mass media; Social aspects; Conflict management; International Communication
Description: This book engages with the mediatized dynamics of political, military and cultural conflicts. In today{u0092}s global and converging media environment, the interrelationship between media and conflict has been altered and intensified. No longer limited to the realms of journalism and political communication, various forms of new media have allowed other social actors to communicate and act through media networks. Thus, the media not only play an important role by reporting conflicts; they have also become co-constitutive of the ways conflicts develop and spread. The first part of the book, Transnational Networks, addresses the opportunities and challenges posed by transnational media to actors seeking to engage in and manage conflicts through new media platforms. The second part, Mobilising the Personal: Crossing Public and Private Boundaries, concerns the ways in which media framings of conflicts often revolve around personal aspects of public figures. The third part, Military, War, and Media, engages with a classic theme of media studies-the power relationship between media, state, and military-but in light of the mediatized condition of modern warfare, in which the media have become an integrated part of military strategies. The book develops 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dynamics of mediatized conflicts / Stig Hjarvard, Mette Mortensen and Mikkel Fugl Eskjær; title: Transnational networks; title: The mediatization of environmental conflict in the "network society" / Alison Anderson; title: Mediatized transnational conflicts : online media and the politicization of asimina the european union in times of crisis / Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz; title: Communicative figurations of financial blogging : deliberative and moralizing modes of crisis communication during the eurocrisis / Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Andreas Hepp, and Rebecca Venema; title: Mobilizing the personal : crossing public and private boundaries; title: Personalized scandalization : sensationalizing trivial conflicts? / Ester Pollack; title: Ritual performance in mediatized conflict : the death of a princess and a prime minister / Johanna Sumiala; title: Mediatized asylum conflicts : human interest framing and commonsense moral / Tine Ustad Figenschou, Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud, and Anna Grøndahl Larsen; title: Military, war, and media; title: Mediatization and globalization : new challenges for war journalism / Stig A. Nohrstedt and Rune Ottosen; title: Imagining influence : logic(al) tensions in war and defence / Sarah Maltby; title: Mediatized death in post-arab spring conflicts / Lilie Chouliaraki; title: Conclusion; title: Mikkel fugl eskjær, mette mortensen and stig hjarvard: the mediatization of conflicts: prospects and challenges; title: Contributors.