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War and the Media

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War and the Media examines the relationship between armed conflict and media coverage, focusing on how media shapes public perception, influences political discourse, and impacts military strategy. This field analyzes the role of various media forms in reporting war, the ethical implications of coverage, and the effects of media on wartime narratives.
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War and the Media examines the relationship between armed conflict and media coverage, focusing on how media shapes public perception, influences political discourse, and impacts military strategy. This field analyzes the role of various media forms in reporting war, the ethical implications of coverage, and the effects of media on wartime narratives.

Key research themes

1. How do contemporary media environments shape the dynamics of war reporting and policymaking in conflict zones?

This research theme examines the evolving media ecology characterized by fragmented, multilevel, and hybrid news environments and how these influence the reporting of conflicts and corresponding policy decisions. Moving beyond the classical 'CNN effect,' it explores the multiplicity of media actors (local, national, international, traditional, and digital) and their interactions, focusing on how media narratives shape, escalate, or mitigate conflicts and impact humanitarian interventions.

Key finding: This study critiques the limitations of the CNN effect, highlighting how contemporary media landscapes are fragmented across multiple platforms and levels, including local media influences often overlooked in traditional... Read more
Key finding: Using quantitative content analysis, this article uncovers how major U.S. magazines visually framed the 2006 Lebanon War with an emphasis on proportionality by highlighting Lebanon’s suffering, yet only marginally represented... Read more
Key finding: This chapter empirically demonstrates how Ukraine’s media landscape adapted dynamically during the 2022 invasion, embodying a decentralized, networked 'swarm communication' model combining top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal... Read more

2. In what ways can peace journalism models improve the framing and ethical reporting of conflicts amid entrenched war narratives?

This theme investigates peace journalism as an alternative to traditional war reporting characterized by conflict escalation, propaganda, and elite orientation. It explores theoretical foundations and operationalization of peace journalism, assessing how it affects media content and audience perceptions. The research includes practical applications in conflict zones, methodological advances integrating discourse analysis, and audience reception studies to evaluate peace journalism’s impact on shaping more constructive and empathetic narratives.

Key finding: By applying Johan Galtung's peace journalism theory, this article argues that consciously adopting peace-oriented reporting—focused on solutions, truth, and people’s voices—can counteract war journalism’s violence-centric... Read more
Key finding: This systematic review identifies consistent peace journalism attributes such as solution-orientation, inclusion of all parties’ voices, and an emphasis on conflict causes and long-term consequences. It critically evaluates... Read more
Key finding: Through content and critical discourse analysis of South African news, this study demonstrates that peace journalism framing—focusing on systemic explanations and cooperative remedies—influences audience interpretations... Read more

3. How do propaganda and media framing operate as strategic tools in shaping public opinion and policy during contemporary conflicts?

This research theme focuses on the role of media and propaganda in managing public perception and policy direction amid warfare, analyzing mechanisms of government-media collusion, ideological framing, and selective coverage. It examines case studies like the Russia-Ukraine invasion and U.S. involvement, studying how propaganda campaigns use legalistic ideology, disinformation control, and selective victimization to justify interventions and sustain political alliances. The theme includes critiques of militarized entertainment and digital-age mediatisation of conflict narratives.

Key finding: Integrating ethnographic content analysis and framing theory, this study reveals the elite press’s role in selective human rights shaming, whereby Western media depict interventions selectively based on political interests.... Read more
Key finding: This article quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes U.S. government and partisan media messaging during the early phase of the 2022 Ukraine war, showing a coordinated propaganda campaign designed to frame Russia as the... Read more
Key finding: Mirroring findings from related research, this study further elucidates the strategic use of information control, framing, and media management by U.S. government and media actors to influence narratives about the... Read more
Key finding: This chapter identifies eight distinct mechanisms by which the U.S. Department of Defense leverages military-themed entertainment ('militainment') to sustain a dystopian imagination of future warfare, shaping public... Read more

All papers in War and the Media

Israel's attack on Gaza received extensive media attention from the early days of its outbreak. Media coverage of the news on the war was incomparable to previous Israel attacks in 2009, 2012 and 2014 due to the length and intensity of... more
The thesis will demonstrate that the various uses of jazz music as propaganda in World War II were determined by an evolving relationship between Axis and Allied policies and projects. The limited previous scholarship in the area,... more
Guerre à Gaza : deux snipers franco-israéliens accusés de « crimes contre l'humanité » et « génocide » l'humanité et de génocide ». Les deux hommes appartiennent à une « unité fantôme » de l'armée israélienne. Qu’on l’appelle la « Ghost... more
After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, al-Nida' (The Call) newspaper was established as a propaganda tool to justify annexation and communicate with Kuwaiti citizens. This study conducts an archival analysis of 104 issues to examine how the... more
An extended book review essay of: Ford Matthew and Hoskins Andrew. Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the 21st Century. London: Hurst & Company, 2022. xx + 284 pp. £20 (pbk). ISBN 978 0 19 765654 9. NOTA BENE: THIS IS A DRAFT... more
This introduction to a groundbreaking volume on media and communication technology in the Russia-Ukraine War presents one of the most detailed and systematic theoretical reflections to date on the development of digital war since 2022. It... more
Le combat d'Israël contre l'islamisme radical du Hamas indique à l'ensemble de l'occident, voire l'ensemble du monde, la voie à suivre
Academic Rees writes: “Accounts of distress, loss and suffering are the daily meat of the news industry. Indeed, from nursery tales to Shakespeare, our cultural life has always been founded, in significant part, on the need to understand... more
This issue investigates the layered temporalities, shifting modalities, and evolving infrastructures of tele-visions – a plural, hyphenated term designating the spectrum of remote viewing technologies that have shaped, and continually... more
Notre article récent intitulé : « Déchets radioactifs, problème insoluble du nucléaire ? » reprenait des sources dont France 24 qui s'avèrent corrompues par une intox reprise par Science et vie et nous tenons à faire un rectificatif clair... more
Il convient à notre situation. Il est tellement désespéré. » 1 Au moment où l'éradication des êtres/de l'être palestinien(s) se poursuit, où apparaissent sur les écrans des visages malnutris et qui dans le Nord global en rappelleront... more
This paper explores the complex interplay between political survival, narrative warfare, and shifting alliances in the ongoing conflict involving Israel, Iran, and the United States. It argues that Israel's traditional dominance in media... more
L’assassinat du Comte Folke Bernadotte fut décidé et voté planifié par le groupe terroriste israélien Lehi, issu d’une scission de l’Irgun, milice d’autodéfense de la droite sioniste, partisane de la création par la force d’un Etat juif... more
Cet article, adressé comme une lettre à Elias Sanbar, déplie quelques thèmes philosophiques et psychanalytiques qui visent, en faisant un pas de côté, à transformer le rapport au politique comme à la guerre.
(Limites de l'antisionisme n° 1) Depuis le commencement de la deuxième Intifada et spécialement depuis que l'armée israélienne, sous la direction de Sharon, a réoccupé à plusieurs reprises les Territoires soumis au contrôle de... more
This paper aims at understanding the international political and strategic changes after the Russian Ukrainian conflict that is supported by the West in general. The conflict includes an occidental pole that wants more control on the... more
The paper analyses digital folklore and humor as a weapon in Ukraine’s defensive war with Russia. The discussion is focused on the specifics, forms, genres, and scope of the Ukrainian people’s cyber war against Russia’s propaganda from... more
Depuis des mois, ce à quoi nous assistons à Gaza relève d'un révisionnisme en temps réel. Comment une ultra-droite israélienne peut-elle se prévaloir d'une tradition juive envers laquelle sa simple existence représente une insulte et une... more
I am starting a full coverage of about 12 films by or with John Wayne. I have hardly watched his films at all in the past for various reasons, like killing Indians, and because my late eldest brother only swore by them. He was a fly taken... more
This paper critically examines media coverage of President Joe Biden's perceived mental decline from 2020 to 2024, applying Michael Cunningham's Theory of Educide, as articulated in his 2023 Armenian Virtual College Master's thesis.... more
This paper critically examines media coverage of President Joe Biden's perceived mental decline from 2020 to 2024, applying Michael Cunningham's Theory of Educide, as articulated in his 2023 Armenian Virtual College Master's thesis.... more
This paper critically examines media coverage of President Joe Biden's perceived mental decline from 2020 to 2024, applying Michael Cunningham's Theory of Educide, as articulated in his 2023 Armenian Virtual College Master's thesis.... more
The study analyzes the survival experiences of students during the information blockade imposed during the siege of Mariupol, Ukraine, in 2022. Using the case study method, posts, photos, and videos from open sources were examined to fill... more
Dal 10 al 12 aprile, presso il CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Fondazione Jéròme Seydoux-Pathé e INHA/Galerie Colbert - Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, a Parigi, si svolgerà il convegno internazionale... more
Ce texte court, que nous avons conçu comme un examen de conscience sans concession, replace le choc du 7 octobre 2023 et de ses suites dans l'histoire longue du conflit israélo-palestinien. Il analyse nos doutes, notre situation délicate,... more
Sous le titre «Un été meurtrier, les dessous d'un conflit» Courant alternatif n° 162, d'octobre 2006, organe de l'OCL, nous dévoile en réalité les «dessous» d'un bien curieux « communisme libertaire ». Même si Courant alternatif a, en... more
This essay is a study of the cultural manifestation of youth in the early years of the People7& Republic of China (PRC). It does not aim to examine the focus on youth merely as a social phenomenon, but instead considers youth as a... more
نيوتن هو أول من وضع مفهوم دائرة الألوان، حيث رتب الألوان التي اكتشفها في شكل دائرة، وأوضح أن بعض الألوان عند مزجها تعطي ألوانًا جديدة. هذه الفكرة كانت الأساس في تطور نظريات اللون الحديثة.
Que veulent en fait les Palestiniens ? Deux États pour deux peuples, la solution qui a échoué Au-delà des contacts diplomatiques en politique, il devient crucial de se demander : que veulent réellement les Palestiniens ? Pour cela, nous... more
In this article, I share my comments on the use of mobile phones in the Russo-Ukrainian War alongside Professor John Arquilla.
Cet article compare la profonde révolte que je ressentais au Chili en 1973, lorsque je voyais de mes propres yeux le renversement brutal de Salvador Allende, soutenu par les États-Unis, le 11 septembre, avec la révolte que je ressens au... more
Yossi Shain étudie le concept de diaspora, essentiel pour comprendre la politique internationale contemporaine. Ses analyses, un peu trop centrées sur l'exemple israélien, montrent que les diverses diasporas s'invitent bien souvent dans... more
This study compared embedded and nonembedded (unilateral) television news coverage during the invasion and the occupation of Iraq. Content analysis was conducted of ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN news during the invasion and during the occupation... more
Witnesses serve as the foundation of well-functioning criminal justice system as their cooperation with law enforcement and judicial authorities is significant to prosecute crimes successfully. In a case, witness serves as key source... more
This study adopted a question posed by a Quora online discussion forum user to investigate social media users’ perceptions of Western media’s role in covering the Russia-Ukraine war. The question posed showed a gap between public... more
Après que Benjamin Netanyahu soit devenu Premier ministre d'Israël, les tensions ont commencé à s'intensifier entre lui et l'Autorité palestinienne. Ces tensions étaient liées à des nouvelles concernant un tunnel que le gouvernement... more
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