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AHRC PhD Studentship with Imperial War Museum and Keele University
Research Topic Surviving modern war: the experiences of British armed forces personnel during the Falklands Campaign, 1982 AHRC PhD Studentship in collaboration with Imperial War Museums (IWM) and Keele University Reference number: HUMSS-AHRC 2018-01 Abstract This project will study the experiences of British service personnel during the 1982 Falklands Campaign, and will examine the impacts and consequences of the campaign for troops involved. The project is an excellent opportunity to make use of a range of materials concerning how service personnel experienced this short, intense, often stressful, and… more Details See Advert and details and Supplementary Information Duration This full-time studentship, which is funded for three years at standard AHRC…
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CFP: Should I post that picture or issue that story? Journalistic practices in the representation of the migrant crisis
Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies SPECIAL ISSUE Guest editors: Vittoria Sacco and Valérie Gorin Human migration is not a new phenomenon. However, recently it has gained substantial space in media coverage. In particular, the images of the little Aylan, a child escaping Syria with his family, lying dead on Bodrum’s beach, have raised old ethical questions of journalistic practices. Aylan’s pictures were extremely powerful and not without symbolism, becoming icons of Syria’s tragedy. They went viral on social media, but they were also criticized. Several media opted not to show the images. The criticism centered on whether it was justifiable or ethical to direct readers’ attention to the…
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The Boat: An Interactive Graphic Novel
New York-based Australian Matt Huynh has created an interactive graphic novelisation of Nam Le’s award-winning story, The Boat a story about a 16-year-old refugee sent off alone by her parents after the fall of Saigon. The Boat forms part of SBS’s commemoration of 40 years of Vietnamese resettlement in Australia. Matt Huynh’s parents, like Le’s, fled Vietnam after the war. Matt said he wanted his adaptation to ‘create an entry point into the conversation about refugees and asylum seekers today’. ‘When I talk casually to friends and younger people about these issues, I notice a reticence to enter the debate. I feel they’re afraid to enter into the issue because…
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Digital records take something precious from military history
Blog post By Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow @andrewhoskins Digital networks and databases appear to crush historical distance. Archives of war increasingly come to us. A simple YouTube search throws up a chaotic mix of official and unauthorised, user-generated content, from helmet cam footage to images of snipers in the field. But this immediacy, volume and pervasiveness can mean less reflection. The rawness of media memory distills a history without horizon and without hindsight. The sheer scale and complexity of digital data as primary source creates an immediate but unwieldy archive. It also hides what is really lost in paper’s demise. And now the official guardians of military documents are…
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Popular Online Figures Who Inspire The Syrian Fighters
Post by Joseph A. Carter, Shiraz Maher and Peter R. Neumann All comments welcome… Over a twelve month period from early 2013 to early 2014 a team of researchers at ICSR created a database of social media profiles of 190 Western and European foreign fighters. More than two thirds of these fighters were affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusrah or the Islamic State (IS) – two groups that have, at one point or another, maintained formal relationships with al-Qaeda. The social media activity of these users provided a unique and unfiltered window into the minds of Western and European foreign fighters in Syria, which provided the information for the ICSR’s very well…
