War and Media Network

Recognising the intersection of war and media in research and practice.

  • About
    • Members
  • News
  • Events
    • Spaces of War: Corporeal War
    • WAM Events
  • Publications
  • Media War and Conflict Journal
    • REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT
    • Spaces of War: Corporeal War
    • MWC Special Issue (12:1) Media and Terrorism in France
    • MWC Special Issue (11:4) Framing
    • MWC Special Issue (11:1) INFOCORE
    • Spaces of War, War of Spaces Conference
      • For those who missed the Spaces of War Conference
    • MWC Special Issue (10:1) Reporting from the Front
    • MWC Special Issue (9:1): Contemporary soldiering
    • Editorial Intro to Contemporary soldiering
    • MWC Centenary Special Issue (7:3)
    • MWC Editor’s Collections: Media, Israel and Conflict
  • Join WAM
  • About
    • Members
  • News
  • Events
    • Spaces of War: Corporeal War
    • WAM Events
  • Publications
  • Media War and Conflict Journal
    • REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT
    • Spaces of War: Corporeal War
    • MWC Special Issue (12:1) Media and Terrorism in France
    • MWC Special Issue (11:4) Framing
    • MWC Special Issue (11:1) INFOCORE
    • Spaces of War, War of Spaces Conference
      • For those who missed the Spaces of War Conference
    • MWC Special Issue (10:1) Reporting from the Front
    • MWC Special Issue (9:1): Contemporary soldiering
    • Editorial Intro to Contemporary soldiering
    • MWC Centenary Special Issue (7:3)
    • MWC Editor’s Collections: Media, Israel and Conflict
  • Join WAM
  • Events

    IAMCR PEACE FELLOWSHIPS

    October 2, 2023 /

    https://iamcr.org/awards/peace-fellowships With the goal of fostering academic dialogue and collaboration across conflict zones, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is pleased to announce the establishment of IAMCR Peace Fellowships. These two-year fellowships aim to unite scholars from regions or communities currently or recently embroiled in antagonistic conflicts. By offering travel grants, membership benefits, and platforms for academic discourse, we seek to create collaborative contact zones that transcend geopolitical boundaries and contribute to peace-building and mutual understanding.  The deadline for application is 15 December 2023.  Rationale Established during the Cold War by researchers from East and West, IAMCR has a long history of promoting academic collaboration and dialogue in situations…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Broadcasting War

    January 25, 2017

    Index on Censorship: The War of the words: Use of propaganda and censorship in conflicts

    March 27, 2014

    Documentary Screening of John Gianvito

    October 18, 2017
  • Events

    CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium

    March 28, 2023 /

    Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Journalists and Commanders: Reporting in times of war, tensions and crises

    February 11, 2016

    Commemoration of the Battle of the Somme 1916

    November 23, 2015

    The Media and WWI

    January 20, 2015
  • Events

    Rethinking Sustainable Development and Peace: Adapting to a Changing World in Crisis

    March 27, 2023 /

    Online International Conference, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park Campus 26th June 2023 Organized by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies and SEARCH Centre of Liverpool Hope Business School The second decade of the century has been marked by interrelated crises seriously disrupting the social fabric of societies, and the possibilities of peace and development across the globe. The aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and ongoing conflicts in other parts of the world, continuing global warming at unprecedented levels and economic hardship have become interlocking crises hampering the prospects for recovery, peaceful coexistence and sustainable development. Such crises have posed unprecedented challenges to peace…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Broadcasting War

    January 25, 2017

    No Man’s Land: Women’s Photography and the First World War

    November 14, 2017

    CFP: Representing and Remembering War

    October 16, 2017
  • Events

    Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form

    March 23, 2023 /

    New Book by Anders Engberg-Pedersen Book information from Stanford University Press The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today’s creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development that began long ago. Indeed, the emergence of martial aesthetics harkens back to a series of inventions, ideas, and debates in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Already then, military thinkers and inventors adopted ideas from the field of aesthetics about the nature, purpose, and force…

    read more

    You May Also Like

    Inside Conflict: War through the Lenses of Soldiers and Civilians

    September 30, 2015

    Women and War: Ireland in the Twentieth Century

    January 9, 2015

    CFP: The First World War: Commemoration & Memory

    July 2, 2015
  • Events

    Why Remember?: Tracing the Past

    March 23, 2023 /

    "Speaking Out" Exhibition at War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo.

    read more

    You May Also Like

    ISA-ICOMM Conference “Communication, Peace and Security in the 21st Century”

    October 26, 2015

    CFP: The global uses and abuses of hate speech discourse, approaching hate speech as political communication

    March 1, 2018

    Warrior snapshots and throwaway lines

    February 27, 2015
 Older Posts

WAM Aims

The War and Media Network aims to establish productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between war and media.

Tweets by warandmedia

MWC Journal

Recent Posts

  • ‘The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict: Forty Years On’
  • IAMCR PEACE FELLOWSHIPS
  • CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium
  • Rethinking Sustainable Development and Peace: Adapting to a Changing World in Crisis

WAM Aims

The War and Media Network aims to establish productive dialogue between academics and practitioners interested in the relationship between war and media.

Recent Posts

  • ‘The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict: Forty Years On’
  • IAMCR PEACE FELLOWSHIPS
  • CFP: The War Face on Screen symposium
  • Rethinking Sustainable Development and Peace: Adapting to a Changing World in Crisis

MWC Journal

© 2019 War and Media Network
Ashe Theme by WP Royal.