Mediatized conflict issues in cultural and media studies
Simon Cottle
- 1st. ed.
- U.K Open university press 2006
- X, 217 p. fig., pic. 22.4 cm
- Issues in cultural and media studies .
Includes references (195 - 210 p.) Includes index (211 - 217 p.)
MEDIATIZED CONFLICT IN THE WORLD TODAY Contemporary society, conflict and change 4 Researching Mediatized conflict 6 Why mediatized Conflict? 8 Plan of Book 9 GETTING A FIX ON MEDIATIZED CONFLICT: PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES 13 The manufacturing consent paradigm 14 Some Critical reflections 17 The Media contest paradigm 20 Some critical reflections 23 The Media culture paradigm 25 Some Critical reflection 27 Chapter Summary 29 Recommended reading 32 REPORTING DEMONSTRATION AND PROTEST: PUBLIC SPHERE(S), PUBLIC SEREENS 33 Media and demonstrations: civil rights and civil wrongs 34 Geopolitics, Dramaturgy and repertoires of protest 40 Geopolitics 41 Dramaturgy 43 Repertoires 45 Global activism and media: Public sphere(s) or Public screens? 46 Chapter 52 Recommended Reading 53 FROM MORAL PANICS TO MEDIATIZED PUBLIC CRISES: MOVING STORIES OF RACE AND RACISM 54 Media and race 55 Moral panics 56 Media events 58 media Scandals 60 Mediatized public crises 61 Media and the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence :a case study 62 Breach 63 Mounting Crisis 63 Redness 66 Reintegration/Schism 68 Chapter Summary 72 Recommended reading 73 WAR JOURNALISM: DISEMBODIED AND EMBEDDED 74 Media at war: what's known 80 Theorizing beyond the Vietnam syndrome - and back again 85 Going Culturally deeper: the phenomenology of war and professional myths 88 Globalization and the changing theatre of war 90 24/7 Real-time reporting 93 Embedding 94 Audiences and body horror 95 Chapter summary 98 PEACE JOURNALISM AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES:ON HOPES AND PRAYERS 100 Peace journalism: muting the sound of guns ? 101 Development journalism: deepening participation ? 107 Public journalism: engaing citizens and democracy? 111 Alternative Journalism on-line: public connectivity 114 Chapter Summary 117 Recommended Reading 119 MEDIA. RISK SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A DIFFERENT STORY 120 Risk Society; ecological hazards, media 121 Relations of Definitions : agenda building beyond primary definers 123 Cultural resonance and the rhetoric of environmental images 130 Audiences, the everyday and a citizen 137 Chapter summary 140 Recommended reading 142 FROM TERRORISM TO THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: THE MEDIA POLITICS OF OUTRAGE 143 From the oxygen of publicity to the democratization of violence 144 Media. terror Spectacle and the politics of moral outrage 152 Image wars: symbolic violence and violent symbolism 155 Contra-flows and cross-over genres 162 Chapter summary 165 Recommended reading 166 IDENTITY POLITICS AND CUTURAL DIFFERENCE: ON MEDIATIZED RECOGNITION 167 Theorizing the politics of recognition 169 Mediatized recognition symbolic rehabilitation and the other 173 Images to the invisible, voice to the voiceless 175 Claims, reason and public argumentation 176 Public Performance and credibility 177 personal accounts experimental testimonies 178 Reconciling the past towards the present 179 media reflexivity 180 Bearing witness in a globalizing world 182 Chapter summary 183 Recommended Reading 184 MEDIATIZED CONFLICT: CONCLUSIONS 185 Principal Findings. new developments 188 REFERENCES 195 INDEX 211