Includes references (195 - 210 p.)

Includes index (211 - 217 p.)

1 MEDIATIZED CONFLICT IN THE WORLD TODAY

4 Contemporary society, conflict and change

6 Researching Mediatized conflict

8 Why mediatized Conflict?

9 Plan of Book

13 GETTING A FIX ON MEDIATIZED CONFLICT: PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES

14 The manufacturing consent paradigm

17 Some Critical reflections

20 The Media contest paradigm

23 Some critical reflections

25 The Media culture paradigm

27 Some Critical reflection

29 Chapter Summary

32 Recommended reading

33 REPORTING DEMONSTRATION AND PROTEST: PUBLIC SPHERE(S), PUBLIC SEREENS

34 Media and demonstrations: civil rights and civil wrongs

40 Geopolitics, Dramaturgy and repertoires of protest

41 Geopolitics

43 Dramaturgy

45 Repertoires

46 Global activism and media: Public sphere(s) or Public screens?

52 Chapter

53 Recommended Reading

54 FROM MORAL PANICS TO MEDIATIZED PUBLIC CRISES: MOVING STORIES OF RACE AND RACISM

55 Media and race

56 Moral panics

58 Media events

60 media Scandals

61 Mediatized public crises

62 Media and the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence :a case study

63 Breach

63 Mounting Crisis

66 Redness

68 Reintegration/Schism

72 Chapter Summary

73 Recommended reading

74 WAR JOURNALISM: DISEMBODIED AND EMBEDDED

80 Media at war: what's known

85 Theorizing beyond the Vietnam syndrome - and back again

88 Going Culturally deeper: the phenomenology of war and professional myths

90 Globalization and the changing theatre of war

93 24/7 Real-time reporting

94 Embedding

95 Audiences and body horror

98 Chapter summary

100 PEACE JOURNALISM AND OTHER ALTERNATIVES:ON HOPES AND PRAYERS

101 Peace journalism: muting the sound of guns ?

107 Development journalism: deepening participation ?

111 Public journalism: engaing citizens and democracy?

114 Alternative Journalism on-line: public connectivity

117 Chapter Summary

119 Recommended Reading

120 MEDIA. RISK SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A DIFFERENT STORY

121 Risk Society; ecological hazards, media

123 Relations of Definitions : agenda building beyond primary definers

130 Cultural resonance and the rhetoric of environmental images

137 Audiences, the everyday and a citizen

140 Chapter summary

142 Recommended reading

143 FROM TERRORISM TO THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: THE MEDIA POLITICS OF OUTRAGE

144 From the oxygen of publicity to the democratization of violence

152 Media. terror Spectacle and the politics of moral outrage

155 Image wars: symbolic violence and violent symbolism

162 Contra-flows and cross-over genres

165 Chapter summary

166 Recommended reading

167 IDENTITY POLITICS AND CUTURAL DIFFERENCE: ON MEDIATIZED RECOGNITION

169 Theorizing the politics of recognition

173 Mediatized recognition symbolic rehabilitation and the other

175 Images to the invisible, voice to the voiceless

176 Claims, reason and public argumentation

177 Public Performance and credibility

178 personal accounts experimental testimonies

179 Reconciling the past towards the present

180 media reflexivity

182 Bearing witness in a globalizing world

183 Chapter summary

184 Recommended Reading

185 MEDIATIZED CONFLICT: CONCLUSIONS

188 Principal Findings. new developments

195 REFERENCES

211 INDEX