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This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. What is Media Operations? 3. The Aim of Media Operations 4. Media Operations: An Interactionist Perspective 5. Audiences: Imagining and Influencing 6. Defining War: Control Moves 7. Defining War: Strategic Interaction 8. Performing War: Bounded Impression Management 9. Performing War: Distanciated Impression Management 10. Impression Management and Mediatized War: Negotiating the 'Front' Line
About the author
Sarah Maltby is a lecturer in sociology and media. She is the founder of the War and Media Network and co-editor of Communicating War: Memory, Military and Media (Arima Publishing, 2007). Her research centres on military information management and representations of conflict in military and journalistic output.
Summary
This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.
