Research Catalog

Title

Transforming media coverage of violent conflicts : the new face of war / Zohar Kampf and Tamar Liebes.

Author

Kampf, Zohar.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Liebes, Tamar.

Description

vii, 187 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts offers a fresh view of contemporary violent conflicts, suggesting an explanation to the dramatic changes in the ways in which war and terror are covered by Western media. It argues that viewers around the globe follow violent events, literally and metaphorically, on "wide" and "flat" screens, in "high-definition". The "wide-screen" means that at present the screen is wide enough to include new actors - terrorists, 'enemy' leaders, ordinary people in a range of roles, and journalists in the field - who have gained status of the kind that in the past was exclusive to editors, army generals and governmental actors. The "high-definition" metaphor means that the eye of the camera closes in on both traditional and new actors, probing their emotions, experiences and beliefs in ways that were irrelevant in past conflicts. The "flat-screen" metaphor stands for the consequences of the two former phenomena, leading to a loss of the hierarchy of the meanings of war. Paradoxically, the better the quality of viewing, the less the understanding of what we see. Through these metaphors, Kampf and Liebes systematically analyse changes in the practices, technologies, infrastructures and external institutional relationships of journalism"--

Subject

• Television broadcasting of news
• War > Press coverage
• War in mass media
• Terrorism in mass media
• Mass media and war
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• Mass media
• Terrorism
• War

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-182) and index.

Contents

Introduction: New Personae in Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts -- Part I. Giving Vice to New Actors: 1. Performer Journalists: The Latest Phase in the Profession ; 2. Celeb terrorists : The New Sought-After Sources ; 3. Giving Voice to Enemy Leaders : Negotiating Over the Heads of 'Our' Politicians ; 4. Foregrounding Ordinary People : Adopting the Logic of the Individual -- Part II. Downgrading Traditional Actors: 5. Missing the Editor: The Decline of Professionalism ; 6. Politicians Looking for Shelter : Distrusting National Leaders ; 7. Generals Under Fire : The Loss of Immunity of High-ranking Officers -- Conclusions : New Characters -- New Challenges.

Call Number

JFD 14-1815

ISBN

• 9780230298705 (hardback)
• 0230298702 (hardback)

LCCN

2013019071

OCLC

827256631

Author

Kampf, Zohar.

Title

Transforming media coverage of violent conflicts : the new face of war / Zohar Kampf and Tamar Liebes.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-182) and index.

Added Author

Liebes, Tamar.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-1815