War and Media

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By Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin

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War and Media explores the intricate and immediate relationships between government, military, and public spheres within a "new media ecology." Authors Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin examine how electronic and digital media have transformed warfare into a phenomenon diffused through our everyday media landscape, creating new asymmetries in the conduct of war and terror.

This book introduces the concept of "diffused war," highlighting the challenges it poses to those who wage and counter warfare, their agents, media mechanisms, and mass publics. It offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the field and presents fresh approaches to understanding the dynamic interplay between war and media.
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Ideal for students and scholars in media, communication and cultural studies, politics and international relations, sociology, journalism, and security studies seeking a detailed, accessible overview of the evolving relationship between war and media in the digital era.

* A timely, comprehensive and highly readable survey of one of the most exciting and current areas of media studies. * Aims to be the authoritative textbook, providing a synopsis of the field from breaking news on television through to the impact of electronic and digital media, such as war blogging.

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The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin here provide a timely, comprehensive and highly readable survey of the field of war and media.

War is diffused through a complex mesh of our everyday media. Paradoxically, this both facilitates and contains the presence and power of enemies near and far. The conventions of so-called traditional warfare have been splintered by the availability and connectivity of the principal locus of war today: the electronic and digital media. Hoskins and O'Loughlin identify and illuminate the conditions of what they term "diffused war" and the new challenges it raises for the actors who wage and counter warfare, for their agents and mechanisms of the new media and for mass publics.

War and Media offers an invaluable review of the key literature and presents a fresh approach to the understanding of the dynamic relationships between war and media. It will be welcomed by a broad range of students taking courses on war and media and related modules, especially in media, communication and cultural studies, politics and international relations, sociology, journalism, and security studies.

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The book is praised for its thorough, multi-disciplinary scholarship and critical assessment of existing paradigms, while developing new theoretical insights relevant to the digital age. It is described as a ground-breaking milestone in the study of war and media, challenging readers to seriously consider how today’s media ecology not only mediates but becomes embedded in the conduct of contemporary warfare.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745638508

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 July 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 300

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Andrew Hoskins Ben O'Loughlin Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Andrew Hoskins is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Ben O'Loughlin is Reader in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.