Media and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century [Paperback]

This collection of essays explores current issues surrounding the media and conflict in the Twenty-first Century. Essays will look at the role of evolving media technologies, the globalization of television and communications, public diplomacy, gender and war coverage, terrorism, and other issues.Introduction Effects of Global Television News on U.S. Policy in International Conflict; E.Gilboa International News and Advanced Information Technology: Changing the Institutional Domination Paradigm?; S.Livingston , W.Lance Bennett & W.Lucas Robinson Getting to War: Communications, Power and Mobilization in the 2002-2003 Iraq Crisis; R.Brown National Security, International Protest: Global and Local Campaigns Against Missile Defense; J.Rodgers The Missing Public in U.S. Public Diplomacy: Exploring the News Media's Role in Developing an American Constituency; K.Fitzpatrick & T.Kosic Characteristics of Coverage by Female Television War Correspondents; C.Kennard The Real War Will Never Get on Television: Casualty Imagery in American Television Coverage of the Iraq War; S.Aday News Coverage of the Bosnian War in Dutch Newspapers: Impact and Implications; N.Ruigrok , J.A.de Ridder & O.Scholten Terrorist Web Sites: Their Contents, Functioning and Effectiveness; M.Conway The News Media and the 'Clash of Civilizations'; P.Seib

Philip Seib continues to show why he is seen as a major authority in the field of media, conflict, peace and security. This outstanding anthology offers not only innovative thinking by distinguished experts about how the media influence (for better or worse) issues of war and peace; it takes the reader into the dust and danger of combat. It is an inspiring contribution to this still-new, but crucial, area of peace-and-conflict studies. Let's hope that among its readers will be many decision-makers who ignore this basic truth: that wars begin and end in the minds of men.

Dr. Keith Spicer, Director, Institute for Media,l#: