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Conference on gender, war and conflict reporting
Call for paper submissions to a conference sponsored by the Norwegian UNESCO commission on gender relations in the area of conflict reporting. The conference will be held at the Department of journalism and media studies at Oslo and Akershus University College on the 6-7 October 2015. The idea behind the conference is to draw attention to gender relations in war, peace and conflict reporting. The conference is a follow up of the project «Journalism under Pressure: A mapping of editorial policies and practices for journalists covering conflicts». This was a survey among more than 100 experienced journalists and editors in the field of war- and conflict reporting. The background for…
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#TheWeaponizationOfSocialMedia
Thomas Elkjer Nissen (Head of Section, StratCom), Royal Danish Defence College #TheWeaponizationOfSocialMedia develops a framework to understand how social network media shapes global politics and contemporary conflicts by examining their role as a platform for conduction intelligence collection, targeting, cyber-operations, psychological warfare and command and control activities. Through these, the weaponization of social media shows both the possibilities and the limitations of social network media in contemporary conflicts and makes a contribution to theorizing and studying contemporary conflicts. Book published by the Royal Danish Defence College´s publishing house. The book is available for download as an e-book from 9th April from here and can be ordered as a hardcopy through the…
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Through a Wall: The Role of the Artist, Activist and Academic in Addressing Belief and Conflict
Panel discussion. Weds April 29th, 6 – 8pm, Anatomy Museum, King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R What are the different ways in which people experience and relate to conflict? How do you cross borders of belief to understand ideologies that feel like a threat? What tools do artists, writers, activists and academics use to narrate, reflect on – or confront – the increasing presence of walls within the collective human experience? How transformative are these approaches in addressing conflict, creating shifts – and communicating through walls? A trans-disciplinary panel in conversation with guest contributors and attendees will address and reflect on these questions. The event will also serve as an…
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Military and the Media symposium
2nd June, University of Leeds We are delighted to announce a one-day symposium on Military and the Media at the University of Leeds on Tuesday 2 June 2015, bringing together researchers interested in the military, media, communications and popular culture. The symposium is organised as part of a British Academy funded project on ‘Representations of contemporary soldiering in digital and visual cultures’ which asks how mediated discourses of ‘war’ and ‘the end of war’ might work to facilitate, complicate or obstruct the wider cultural and political understandings which occur both within the armed forces, and between them, their families and the wider public. The British soldier has become a regular…
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Propaganda & Counter-terrorism: Strategies for Global Change
New book by Emma Briant. A account of how the British and United States Governments attempted to adapt their propaganda strategies for counter-terrorism in a post-9/11 global media environment is revealed in a new book by Dr Emma Briant. The book interrogates the structural and cultural development of the propaganda apparatus in the two countries. It illuminates how, through Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles, planners brought in far-reaching changes to propaganda, worked around barriers and restrictions, and redefined ‘legitimate’ propaganda function for the present day. The author highlights a compelling need for an independent and public reexamination of continuing strategy development – both for government accountability and to create systems…
