Issue April 2009 2(1)

mwc coverARTICLES

Sheldon Himelfarb, Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace,
Media and peacebuilding: the new army stability doctrine and media sector development

Thomas M. Cioppa. Colonel, US Army
Operation Iraqi Freedom strategic communication analysis and assessment

Shahira Fahmy, School of Journalism, University of Arizona, USA
Thomas J. Johnson, College of Mass Communications, Texas Tech University, USA
How embedded journalists in Iraq viewed the arrest of Al-Jazeera reporter Taysir

Virgil Hawkins, Global Collaboration Center, Osaka University, Japan
Alouni National interest or business interest: coverage of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in The Australian newspaper 

REVIEWS

Nancy Snow Book review
Guy Westwell War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line London: Wallflower Press (Short Cuts Series), 2006. 133 pp. ISBN 1 904764 54 1 (pbk)

Tony Shaw Hollywood’s Cold War Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 342 pp. ISBN 978 0 7486 2523 9 (hbk); ISBN 978 0 7486 2524 6 (pbk)

Peter Shields Book review
Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Victor Mauer and Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel (eds) Power and Security in the Information Age: Investigating the Role of the State in Cyberspace Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 167 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 7088 9 (hbk)

Kenneth R. Donow Book review
Marda Dunsky Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli— Palestinian Conflict New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 456 pp. ISBN 978 0 23113348 7 (hbk); ISBN 978 0 231 13349 4 (pbk)

Nathan Roger Book review
Nicholas Mirzoeff Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture New York: Routledge, 2005. vi + 196 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 34309 1 (hbk); ISBN 978 0 415 34310 7 (pbk)

Heloiza G. Herscovitz Book review:
Martin Löffelholz and David Weaver (eds) Global Journalism Research: Theories, Methods, Findings, Future Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 304 pp. ISBN 978 4051 5331 7

Valerie Priscilla Goby Book review
Tugrul Ilter, Nurten Kara, Melek Atabay, Yetin Arslan and Muge Orun (eds) Communication in Peace/Conflict in Communication (Proceedings of the Second International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, 2—4 May 2007, Faculty of Media and Communication Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus) Famagusta, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus: Eastern Mediterranean Press, 2008. x + 306 pp. ISBN 978 975 8401 61 1