The War and Media Network recognises the intersection between war and media as an important area of research and debate. The aim of the War and Media Network is to establish productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between war and media including - but not limited to - journalists, policy makers, military members, researchers, artists, authors and film-makers. Join the network to keep in touch and up to date with relevant news and events.
By Robertson Allen “A rigorous and fascinating glimpse of what is more than just one online game. America’s Digital Army opens up crucial issues about the conflation of war and work, play and drill, pleasure and simulation, as well as the labor involved in the production of the militarized, fear-ridden cultural politics of …
By Kent Puckett Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley Click here for more information In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to …
Edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus, Katherine Isobel Baxter A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the present This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war’s upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television …
By Daniel Binns ISBN 9781783207541 Published July 2017 Combining action, violence, and deeply conflicted emotions, war has always been a topic made for the big screen. In The Hollywood War Film, Daniel Binns considers how war has been depicted throughout the history of cinema. Looking at depictions of both …
An international and interdisciplinary one-day workshop at Keele University Tuesday 30 May 2017 Claus Moser Building, CM0.12 Programme 10.00: Tea and coffee 10.20: Welcome and introduction 10.30-11.40: Military Cultures in Britain and Argentina Helen Parr (Keele University), ‘Professional, Regimented, Aggressive: British Paratroopers and the Falklands War’. Eleonora Natale (Keele University), …
Guest Editors: Sumaya Al Nahed & Philip Hammond Respondents: Robert Entman & Curd B. Knupfer This special issue of Media, War and Conflict focusing on framing analysis aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of framing as a method for analysing contemporary war coverage, and to clarify how and …
University of Bristol, 6 June 2017 Gender Research Centre | Global Insecurities Centre | FSSL Gender Research Group Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Sylvester, University of Connecticut Workshop description The gendered nature and power of public exhibitions has long sparked feminist interest and activism. National art galleries, history museums, and war …
Tuesday 14 March 2017 6:30pm to 8:00pm Speaker: Professor Clemencia Rodríguez Respondent: Dr Shakuntala Banaji Chair: Professor Nick Couldry Hosted by Department of Media and Communications, LSE Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building The presence of armed groups and the proximity of armed violence and war have a tremendous impact …
University of Oxford, 20 June 2017 Deadline for abstracts: Monday 24th April War necessitates travel: soldiers on active duty are ‘mobilised’, and so in a different sense are the people that war has displaced or made homeless. From the peripli of classical antiquity to the Grand Tour, from ethnographic and imperialist …
Deadline: April 20, 2017 Wars, conflicts, terrorist events, humanitarian crises and social tensions continue to determine the agenda of Turkey and the world. The reflection of acts of violence dominating the literature in media and communication studies and the social influence of violence in the media still maintain their significance.Ranging from individual crimes …
An interdisciplinary 1-day workshop University of Warwick – Saturday 6th May 2017 Booking now open (£10/£5 students):http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/bw This workshop will bring together scholars interested in how war has been broadcast to the public in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the early use of radio, through to newsreel, television, 24-hour …
Special issue of Humanities Professor. Jim Aulich (School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Mary Ikoniadou (School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Deadline: 3rd March, 2017 This Special Issue of Humanities journal will explore the intersection of conflict and visual culture since 1945. In more than half a century, …
