Selling War: The Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts from World War I to the "War on Terror" (Intellect Books - European Communication Research and Education Association)

This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concepts and methodological tools for analyzing the nature of these relationships. Shedding new light on conflicts spanning from World War I through the so-called War on Terror, the contributors explore the roles of traditional media, war blogs, and eyewitness reporting; of war correspondents and embedded journalism; and of propaganda, wartime public relations, and information warfare. Preface: Perspectives On The Changing Role Of The Mass Media In Hostile Conflicts / Matthias Karmasin ... [et Al.] -- Introduction: Delivering War To The Public : Shaping The Public Sphere / Philip Seib -- War And The Public Sphere : European Examples From The Seven Years' War To The World War I / Reinhard Stauber -- Discourses Of War / Diego Lazzarich -- Between Indifference And News Hunger : Media Effects And The Public Sphere In Nazi Germany During Wartime / Jürgen Wilke -- Perception Of Newspapers And Magazines In Field Post Correspondence During World War Ii / Clemens Schwender -- Between Reporting And Propaganda : Power, Culture, And War Reporting / Daniel C. Hallin -- Just Wars And Persuasive Communication : Analyzing Public Relations In Military Conflicts / Magnus-sebastian Kutz -- An Iconography Of Pity And A Rhetoric Of Compassion : War And Humanitarian Crises In The Prism Of American And French Newsmagazines (1967-95) / Valérie Gorin -- Women, The Media And War : The Representation Of Women In German Broadsheets Between 1980 And 2000 / Romy Fröhlich -- Something Has Changed : International Relations And The Media After The Cold War / Josef Seethaler And Gabriele Melischek -- Surging Beyond Realism : How The Us Media Promote War Again And Again / Robert M. Entman -- The Coverage Of Terrorism And The Iraq War In The Issue-attention Cycle / Stephan Russ-mohl -- The Media And Humanitarianism Intervention / Philip Hammond -- Shifting Frames In A Deadlocked Conflict? : News Coverage Of The Israeli-palestinian Conflict / Nel Ruigrok, Wouter Van Atteveldt, And Janet Takens -- Public Discourse On The Georgian War In Russia And The Eu : A Content Analysis Of The Coverage In Traditional Print Media And Emerging Online Media / Cordula Nitsch And Dennis Lichtenstein -- Limitations Of Journalism In War Situations : A Case Study From Georgia / Roman Hummel -- Mass-mediated Debate About Torture In Post-9/11 America / Brigitte L. Nacos. Edited By Josef Seethaler ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 IFC 2 Half Title 4 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Preface: Perspectives on the Changing Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts 10 Introduction: Delivering War to the Public: Shaping the Public Sphere 18 PART I: ‘Never Such Innocence Again’: Propaganda and Total War 32 War and the Public Sphere: European Examples from the Seven Years’ War to the World War I 34 Discourses of War 54 Between Indifference and News Hunger: Media Effects and the Public Sphere in Nazi Germany during Wartime 74 Perception of Newspapers and Magazines in Field Post Correspondence during the World War II 92 PART II: Visual Turn, War PR and the Changing Relationships between Politics,Media and the Public Sphere 108 Between Reporting and Propaganda: Power, Culture and War Reporting 110 Just Wars and Persuasive Communication: Analyzing Public Relations in Military Conflicts 124 An Iconography of Pity and a Rhetoric of Compassion: War and Humanitarian Crises in the Prism of American and French Newsmagazines (1967–95) 152 Women, the Media and War: The Representation of Women in German Broadsheets between 1980 and 2000 174 ‘Something Has Changed’: International Relations and the Media after the ‘Cold War’ 198 Surging Beyond Realism: How the US Media Promote War Again and Again 218 PART III: Globalization and the ‘Postmodern’ War of Images 234 The Coverage of Terrorism and the Iraq War in the ‘Issue-Attention Cycle’ 236 The Media and Humanitarian Intervention 254 Shifting Frames in a Deadlocked Conflict?: News Coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict 276 Public Discourse on the Georgian War in Russia and the EU: A Content Analysis of the Coverage in Traditional Print Media and Emerging Online Media 308 Limitations of Journalism in War Situations: A Case Study from Georgia 332 Mass-Mediated Debate about Torture in Post-9/11 America 348 Authors 370 Index 374 Back Cover 386 This book is the first collection of essays to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from a multidisciplinary perspective and over an extended historical period. It is also the first textbook for students in this field, discussing a wide range of theoretical concepts and methodological tools for analyzing the nature of these relationships. The book starts with a thorough overview by Philip Seib of war, the media and the public sphere. His chapter explores how the perception of war in the public sphere is influenced by the media and, more precisely, how the news Brings together international scholarship to explore the changing relationships between war, media, and the public from multidisciplinary perspectives and over an extended historical period, spanning from World War I through the so-called 'War on Terror'.