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    • Members
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  • 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
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    • Editorial Intro to Contemporary soldiering
    • MWC Centenary Special Issue (7:3)
    • MWC Editor’s Collections: Media, Israel and Conflict
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    Politics, Propaganda and the Press: International Reactions to the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict

    March 6, 2023 /

    Author: Louise Clare 20% Discount Available – enter the code AFL01 at checkout** Please note that this discount code cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via www.routledge.com. This code expires on 30 June 2023. For more information visit the Routledge website Book Description This book examines British and Argentine media output in the prelude to and during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and acknowledges the aftermath and legacies of the media response. Yards of ink have been spilt, reinforcing the view that the Argentine Junta’s action on 2nd April 1982 was a ‘diversion’ from domestic tensions. This view, coupled…

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    Media Power and The Transformation of War

    June 25, 2013
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    New Book – Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: War Minus the Shooting?

    February 22, 2023 /

    Edited by Martin Hurcombe & Philip Dine Available to pre-order. Use code SMA31 to get a 20% discount. Valid until 31 March 2023. This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a series of case studies from South and North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia and New Zealand. From formal military training in the late nineteenth century to contemporary esports, the relationship between military and sporting cultures has endured across nations in times of conflict and peace. This collection contextualizes debates around the morality and desirability of continuing to play sport against the backdrop of war as others are…

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    The First World War Literature, Culture, Modernity

    April 19, 2018

    The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows

    April 7, 2020

    America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War

    July 11, 2017
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    Recognising and Responding to Genocide Denial: The Case of Rwanda

    October 4, 2021 /

    Volume edited by Catherine Gilbert, Paul Rukesha and Caroline Williamson Sinalo  Denial of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda has significantly increased in recent years, with prominent intellectuals and journalists finding a growing voice in the mainstream media and in academic institutions. This volume will bring together Rwandan and international experts from academia and civil society working on issues related to the genocide against the Tutsi and its denial. The volume will engage in discussions about genocide denial in its many manifestations, delineating the major arguments of genocide deniers and the forms and patterns denial takes. It will also consider the consequences of genocide denial both in terms…

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    Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order

    November 28, 2013

    CFP: Should I post that picture or issue that story? Journalistic practices in the representation of the migrant crisis

    November 26, 2015

    Becoming the Story War: Correspondents since 9/11

    March 1, 2018
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    Information at War

    July 5, 2021 /

    Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern Warfare New Book by Philip SeibPolity July 2021. For more information or to order the book click here Please note publication of the book is as follows: 16th July Europe, 17th September North America. The book is available for pre-order here A war’s outcome is determined by more than bullets and bombs. In our digital age, the proliferation of new media venues has magnified the importance of information – whether its content is true or purposely false – in battling an enemy and defending the public. In this book, Philip Seib, one of the world’s leading experts on media and war, offers a probing analysis of the role of information…

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    CFP: Digital Aesthetics of Violence

    February 26, 2015

    Reconciling Impact and Ethics

    July 29, 2019

    War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945

    June 29, 2017
  • Projects,  Publications

    Visualising War Podcast

    April 21, 2021 /

    How do war stories work? And what do they do to us? These questions are central to the work of many WAM members so the Visualising War Project hope that you will be interested in their new podcast which is launching to explore these questions and more. https://visualisingwar.buzzsprout.com Led by Drs Alice König and Nicolas Wiater, Visualising War is an interdisciplinary research project based at the University of St Andrews (https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-war/). It looks at how war gets represented in art, text, drama, music and many other kinds of storytelling. Exploring material from the ancient world to the present day, we unpick representations of many different kinds of conflict from all…

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    Archives of War

    November 10, 2015

    New literature resource on media, conflict and democratisation

    October 22, 2015

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