Jennifer Terry's Killer Entertainments

Mireille Thornton on the awarding of the 2008 World Press Photo first prize

Review of British artist's Said Adrus'"Lost Pavillion", by Amna Malik

Noise of the Past at Goldsmiths, new research project

ICA's Memorial to the Iraq War Exhibition, reviewed by Andrew Hoskins and Lucy Annison

Mark of Cain Review Essay Kevin McSorley

US Hearings into "misleading battlefield information"Robin Andersen

The "Good" Muslims:  U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Pakistan ICMP

Losing Hearts and Minds? Engaging Arab and Western Media in the War on Terrorism: Steve Tatham

Losing Hearts and Minds? Engaging Arab and Western Media in the War on Terrorism: Steve Tatham

Bush's Fantasy Budget and the Military/Entertainment Complex by Robin Andersen

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) Counterspin Interview with Robin Andersen

3WE research report: "'Bringing the World to the UK".

Transcript of Media representations of War and Conflict: a workshop organized on March 18, 2005

Robert Fisk's article: "Let us rebel against poisonous academics and their preposterous claptrap of exclusion ". Also read Neal Curtis' response to Robert Fisk article

Conference report for War and Media Network conference
Communicating War: Strategies, Implications and Ethics

Jc2m Journal final edition: Political Violence and Media Discourse

• 01/08/2008 "Killer Entertainments" by Jennifer Terry
  Killer Entertainments presents challenges to both designers and users on many levels. How to critically address videos shot by soldiers engaged in combat without sensationalizing, decontextualizing or trivializing them? How to provide access to such a diverse and extensive range of work? How to insert commentary, context and background information while preserving the raw power of the original videos? In response to these challenges, author Jennifer Terry and designer Raegan Kelly developed a rhetoric of connection and accretion which resists linearity and the seductiveness of a single argument illustrated with evidence. Users are led toward no single interpretation; no replacement ideology takes over from that of the Administration's party line. Indeed the text allows for and even encourages responses based in idiosyncracy and uncertainty. The source material presented all comes from "the Internet," but what does that mean? What can it mean? Which of the sites hosting these materials are "real" and which are run by counter-intelligence agencies hoping to track usage patterns among potential dissidents via IP addresses? To view Killer Entertainments and gain more information about the project click here.
  
  

• 12/03/2008"A photograph with a message – and without a hope" The iconic status of Hetherington’s exhausted soldier seems assured after the WPP contest. But Mireille Thornton says we should decide its meaning for ourselves rather than reading the words of the WPP judges alone. For full article click here.
  
  




• 11/03/2008: Amna Malik reviews British artist's Said Adrus' video installation Sights of memory and mourning: "Lost Pavilion" where memory, history and location all come together in a series of photographs, abstract watercolours and a video installation. At the centre of this exhibition is a forgotten event, the presence in Britain of Indian soldiers wounded and convalescing in the Royal Pavilion Brighton during the First World War. Click here for review




• 11/03/2008: New Research at Goldsmiths: "Noise of the Past:. The AHRC funded Noise of the Past project engages with the resident narratives of consecrated sites of war and memory. Click here for for information. Noise of the Past grew out of the film "Remembrance" where the director slowly reveals a distinguished gentleman through memories, objects and extracts of his subjects poetry, as a thoroughly British Service of Remembrance plays on the television in the background. To watch the flim click here for the link from the BBC website.
  
  
• 01/10/2007: Review: Andrew Hoskins and Lucy Annison review the ICA's Memorial to the Iraq War exhibition and reflect on the memorialisation of war. Click here for link
  
  

• 02/07/2007: Review Essay: Dr Kevin McSorley uses Tony Marchant’s drama The Mark of Cain as a point of departure to discuss wider issues of war, morality and media.   Click here for link
  
  
• 03/05/2007: Robin Andersen blogged about the US hearings into "misleading battlefield information" and tied it to todays anniversary of "Mission Accomplished. Part of Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of PR Watch " Click here for link

• 18/04/2007: A major new study by the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) analyzing how 13 major U.S. newspapers covered the nation of Pakistan--first in the year following 9/11 and then five years later, in 2006 has been released. The 43-page report, The "Good" Muslims:  U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Pakistan  is available for download as a pdf on the ICMPA website. Click here for a press release.

• 12/02/2007: Losing Hearts and Minds? Engaging Arab and Western Media in the War on Terrorism Lieutenant Commander Steve Tatham, Royal Navy, visited the IFS and spoke about Coalition media operations in the early stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom

• 12/02/2007: Bush's Fantasy Budget and the Military/Entertainment Complex by Robin Andersen, published in Center for Media and Democracy, Publishers of PR Watch

• 04/01/2007: FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) Counterspin Interview with Robin Andersen on media and war. A special conversation with media historian and scholar Robin Andersen about the media and war. Andersen's new book A Century of Media, A Century of War traces media gullibility, official deception and propaganda through the years. It's a reminder that the media's role in making the case for the Iraq War is part of a larger story, that of a press corps that regularly cheers on American military action while shielding readers and viewers from its consequences. We'll speak about that history, and how military imagery in the culture at large affects how we see real life war.

• 22/06/2006: 3WE research report: "'Bringing the World to the UK". 3WE's unique monitoring project has, since 1989-90, regularly monitored the quantity of international programming on the UK's mainstream TV channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4 and C5). These are the channels which have public service obligations and which together still retain 80% of all TV audiences.