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Informationen zum Autor Daya Kishan Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster in London. A PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he is the founder and Managing Editor of Global Media and Communication, a journal published by SAGE. He has authored and edited as many as 17 books. Among his key publications are: Mapping BRICS Media (co-edited with Kaarle Nordenstreng, 2015); Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Des Freedman, 2012); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2007); International Communication: Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); and Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance (1998). In 2014, he was honored with a “Distinguished Scholar Award” by the International Studies Association, a first for a non-Western scholar in the field of International Communication. Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is co-director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and a founding member of the Media Reform Coalition. His publications include, as editor, Capitalism’s Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian (Pluto, 2021) and, as author, The Contradictions of Media Power (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Politics of Media Policy (Polity 2008), Misunderstanding the Internet (Routledge, 2016, co-authored with James Curran and Natalie Fenton) and The Media Manifesto (Polity, 2020, co-authored with Natalie Fenton, Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik). He has co-edited books on a wide range of themes including media, racism and terrorism, the politics of higher education, media reform and the future of television. Klappentext `No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media's relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power' - John PilgerThis book examines the changing contours of media coverage of war and considers the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime. Zusammenfassung `No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media's relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power' - John PilgerThis book examines the changing contours of media coverage of war and considers the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman PART ONE: COMMUNICATING CONFLICT IN A GLOBAL WORLD Contextualizing Conflict - Aijaz Ahmad The US `War on Terrorism¿ Watching What we Say - Ted Magder Global Communication in a Time of Fear Understanding not Empathy - Jean Seaton PART TWO: NEW DIMENSIONS OF MANAGING CONFLICT Information Warfare in an Age of Globalization - Frank Webster The Counter-Revolution in Military Affairs - John Downey and Graham Murdock The Globalization of Guerilla Warfare Spinning the War - Robin Brown Political Communications, Information Operations and Public Diplomacy in the War on Terrorism `We Know Where You Are¿ - Philip Taylor Psychological Operations Media During /f003Enduring Freedom PART THREE: REPORTING CONFLICT IN AN ERA OF 24//7 NEWS Live TV and Bloodless Deaths - Daya Kishan Thussu War, Infotainment and 24//7 News Israel//Palestinian Conflict - Greg Philo, Alison Gilmour, Susanna Rust, Etta Gaskell and Lucy West TV News and Public Understanding Mapping the /f003Al-Jazeera/f001 Phenomenon - Noureddine Miladi PART FOUR: REPRESENTATIONS OF CONFLICT - 9//11 AND BEYOND War...
