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Digital witnesses to the crime: Visual representation of the Bucha massacre across social media platforms Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Bartosz Hamarowski, Maria Lompe
This article investigates the role of social media platforms in the visual representation of the Bucha massacre perpetrated by Russian forces during the aggression against Ukraine in 2022. By considering the interconnectedness of the online and offline spheres, the authors explore the impact of social media on the coverage of the massacre. The study focuses on a comprehensive analysis of 6,185 images
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Citizen journalism for social mobilization in war-affected Tigray Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Hagos Nigussie, Gebru Kiflu
This article examines the use of citizen journalism for social mobilization in war-affected Tigray. A mixed approach was used, involving individual interviews, focus group discussions and a quantitative content analysis. The results revealed that citizen journalists provided information for community members to unite, support each other and make informed decisions. This was valuable for women and girls
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The moderate rebel industry: Spaces of Western public–private civil society and propaganda warfare in the Syrian civil war Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ben Arthur Thomason
This article documents a covert propaganda and civil society operation perpetrated by a consortium of Western governments, private contractors, and NGOs to justify and facilitate regime change in Syria by whitewashing and assisting rebel groups. Using leaked documents from key government contractors, corroborated with journalistic, academic, NGO, and government research already released, the author
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Representation of the fall of Kabul in Pakistani and Afghan media Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Amir Hamza Marwan, Madeeha Naz
The fall of Kabul signified the termination of the democratically elected government in Afghanistan and reinstated the Taliban as the prevailing authority in the country. The ascension of the Taliban in Afghanistan holds significant importance considering the profound suffering experienced by both Afghanistan and Pakistan. This study looks at how well-known Pakistani and Afghan television channels
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‘The EndSARS movement is an umbrella for other challenges’: Assessing Nigeria’s EndSARS protest through the theoretical lens of intersectionality Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Silas Udenze, Antoni Roig Telo, Fernanda Pires
This article analyses the underlying and immediate triggers of Nigeria’s EndSARS protest and their interconnectedness. Leveraging Braun and Clark’s reflexive thematic analysis of interviews with 11 participants along with the ethnographic approach, the authors constructed a broader theme termed ‘EndSARS – An Umbrella’. They identify three primary themes (youth unemployment, endemic public sector corruption/poor
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Book Review: The New American War Film Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Christopher McMahon
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Smartphone resilience: ICT in Ukrainian civic response to the Russian full-scale invasion Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Kateryna Zarembo, Michèle Knodt, Jannis Kachel
In modern warfare, digitalization has blurred the line where civilian ends and military begins. Embedded in the participative warfare theoretical paradigm, this article looks into how the information and communication technologies (ICT) enable civic resilience under the conditions of the foreign armed aggression. Specifically, the authors explore how smartphones and smartphone applications empowered
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When the media goes to war: How Russian news media defend the country’s image during the conflict with Ukraine Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nhung Nguyen, Pamela Peters, Hechen Ding, Hong Tien Vu
Using the country image repair framework, this study analyzed two opinion columns in major Russian state-controlled media outlets with content related to the Russian–Ukraine conflict, Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, from 24 February 2022 to 20 May 2022. A thematic content analysis was used to examine 60 articles by RT and 70 articles on Sputnik. Results from the analysis determined that the five strategies
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Effectiveness of art therapy in reducing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and the propensity to quit journalism among journalists covering banditry activities in Nigeria Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Felix Olajide Talabi, Joshua Kayode Okunade, Joseph Moyinoluwa Talabi, Ishola Kamorudeen Lamidi, Samson Adedapo Bello, Blessing Chinweobo-Onoha, Gever Verlumun Celestine
The goal of this study was to examine the efficacy of art therapy in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the propensity to quit journalism among Nigerian journalists covering banditry attacks. The researchers utilized a quasi-experiment as the design for the study and sampled 327 journalists. The result of the study showed that at baseline, journalists reported high PTSD symptoms
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The female jihadist narrative: a comparative analysis Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Maria Isabel Garcia García
The research analyses the representation that different jihadist organizations make of women through their official propaganda. The aim is to analyse the construction of the feminine ideal designed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), ISIS and Jabhat Al-Nusra through their leading magazines and to identify if there are differences in their representation of women. A content analysis is carried
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Analysis of coverage of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings in Spain’s El País and El Diario Vasco through war and peace journalism frames Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Melissa R Meade, Richard Pineda
This study examines the way in which two major Spanish newspapers, El País and El Diario Vasco, framed the 11 March 2004 (11-M) Madrid train bombings through peace journalism or war journalism, based on Peace Studies theorist Johan Galtung’s classification. An analysis of the news articles in the immediate aftermath of the bombings finds both frames present. The incumbent Spanish government initially
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Investigating responses to US drone strikes in Yemen using Twitter data Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Evan Weiss, Violet Ross, Alex Lyford
As part of the War on Terror, the US conducted at least 378 air and drone strikes in Yemen from 2002 to 2023. While primarily targeting members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), these strikes have killed over 1,000 people, including more than 125 civilians. This research aims to understand the broader societal impact of US military action as shown on Twitter, now known as ‘X’. The authors
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Utility of Repetitive Nerve Stimulation in the Diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis in the Inpatient Setting Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Katherine M Clifford, Connie K Wu, David Post, Ruba Shaik, Srikanth Muppidi
ObjectivesSensitivity and specificity of Repetitive Nerve Stimulation (RNS) is typically reported from outpatient centers, and we hypothesized that these values might not apply to hospitalized pati...
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Asian American Men’s Gendered Racial Socialization and Fragmented Masculinity: Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Lydia HaRim Ahn, Andrew Young Choi, Adil Choudhry, Mary Nguyen, Gintare M. Meizys, Annalisa Chu, Maynard Hearns
We investigated the messages, ideals, and critical experiences that constitute gendered racial socialization for Asian American men (AAM) throughout their development. We employed interpretive phen...
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Making Sense of Husserlian Phenomenological Philosophy in Empirical Research Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Ebenezer Cudjoe
Phenomenological philosophy is esoteric. Therefore, it is not surprising that most empirical studies adopting a phenomenological approach do not acknowledge or engage with key phenomenological conc...
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Jonathan Edwards’s Affective Anthropology Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Kyle Strobel
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is often utilized in modern philosophical and psychological research as the theologian of affect. While affection is, undoubtedly, at the heart of his theological enter...
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Examining the dual role among adolescent mothers of pre-tertiary school students in Ghana Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Issahaku Alhassan, Abiba Asoma, Hilda Ofori Donkoh
The study set out to give an in-depth analysis of the experiences of adolescent student mothers studying at the pre-tertiary level. Specifically, it examined how they balance caring for the baby wh...
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Extensive viewing as additional input for foreign language vocabulary learning: A longitudinal study in secondary school Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Ferran Gesa, Imma Miralpeix
This study presents a teaching intervention to maximize the learning of a set of target words (TW) in learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in a secondary school by means of intentional v...
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US news media’s framing of the ‘North Korean crisis’ under the Trump administration: The new ideological foreign affairs paradigm Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Brett Labbe, SangHee Park
On 11 February 2017, North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test of the Trump administration. Over the ensuing year the North Korean government continued to defy i...
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War on frames: Text mining of conflict in Russian and Ukrainian news agency coverage on Telegram during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Grzegorz Ptaszek, Bohdan Yuskiv, Sergii Khomych
This article discusses the results of verbal framing analysis of the conflict in news published on Telegram channels by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti (RIAN) and the Ukrainian news agency (UNI...
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Open-source intelligence and research on online terrorist communication: Identifying ethical and security dilemmas Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Miron Lakomy
This article explores key ethical and security challenges related to exploitation of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in research on online terrorist propaganda. In order to reach this objective, t...
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Peace is possible: The role of strategic narratives in peacebuilding Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Tiffany Fairey
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), scholars and practitioners often cite the lack of shared narrative as a primary challenge to long-term peace. A study of the multi-ethnic, collaborative story-telli...
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Popular media, war propaganda and retroactive continuity: The construction of the enemy in Marvel comics (1942–1981) Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Antonio Pineda, Jesús Jiménez-Varea
The construction of the enemy is a technique whose potential effects are of outmost consequence for the relationships between the media, war and propaganda. In World War II, in addition to the offi...
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Media framing of the Intifada of the Knives Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Dalia Attar, Gretchen King
Research examining coverage of Western media on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict shows an imbalance in reporting the news and favoritism towards an Israeli government interpretation of the story. T...
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Finding peace journalism: An analysis of Pakistani media discourse on Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Ayesha Jehangir
This study investigates media coverage of Afghan refugees by English-language media in Pakistan and explores how coverage is shaped by a shift in the political stance of the Pakistani state and est...
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De-enemizing the enemy in the contemporary truce film Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
The author’s interest resides in war films which re-humanize the enemy so as to question the militaristic philosophy and politics of a given military conflict. Her discussion focuses on the truce f...
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The Ocular Politics of Targeting: Disembodiment and the Perpetrator Gaze in the War on Terror Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Jessica Auchter
This article analyses the politics of seeing as a way to examine the elision of civilian casualty in the War on Terror. The author particularly focuses on the ambiguities and paradoxes at play in t...
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Damsels in distress: Fragile masculinity in digital war Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Elizaveta Gaufman
The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 was a culmination of anti-Ukrainian rhetoric that Russian political elite and state-controlled media have been promoting at least sinc...
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The War on Terror beyond the barrel of a gun: The procedural rhetorics of the boardgame Labyrinth Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Thomas Ambrosio, Jonathan Ross
Utilizing Bogost’s procedural rhetoric framework in his book Persuasive Games, this article examines Labyrinth, a boardgame that simulates the conflict between the United States and global terroris...
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The Kosovo war and the Washington Post: Bombings and alignments Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Astrid A Fleischer
This article explores the alignments on the Kosovo war during the spring of 1999 in the Washington Post newspaper. How did the Washington Post represent the events during Operation Allied Force, NA...
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Corrigendum to “Book review: British Media and the Rwandan Genocide” Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-07-23
John Nathaniel Clarke. British Media and the Rwandan Genocide. Reviewed by: Catherine Bond. Media, War & Conflict. February 2022. DOI: 10.1177/17506352211073201
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‘We may have bad days . . . that doesn’t make us killers’: How military veterans perceive contemporary British media representations of military and post-military life Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Katy Parry, Jenna Pitchford-Hyde
Over the last two decades of long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the media’s attention on military veterans in the UK has been characterized by a series of shifts: from a focus on combat operations;...
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Death’s common sense: Casualty counts in war reportage from Syria and beyond Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Isaac Blacksin
In distilling war to the amount of bodily harms it causes, war becomes measurable, comparable, and intelligible in its journalistic depiction. Yet the self-evidence of casualty counts mystifies bot...
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Exploring the use of #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter to understand the impacts of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Soomin Lee, Lynn Cockburn, Julius T. Nganji
Since October 2016, Cameroon has been involved in a violent conflict known as the Anglophone Crisis. This study examines the impact of the hashtag #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter in capturing a...
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Ringing true? The persuasiveness of Russian strategic narratives Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Charlotte Wagnsson, Magnus Lundström
International Relations (IR) scholars have theorized the significance of communication and messaging across state borders, using notions such as soft power, sharp power, propaganda and illiberal co...
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‘No difference between journalism and suicide’: Challenges for journalists covering conflict in Balochistan Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Sidra Agha, Márton Demeter
The safety of journalists reporting from conflict zones is a complex issue as they are exposed to a variety of challenges on a daily basis. This research aims to identify those multi-dimensional ch...
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The platformization of military communication: The digital strategy of the Israel Defense Forces on Twitter Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Alessandra Massa, Giuseppe Anzera
Platforms are conditioning the way public communication is conducted while presenting themselves as neutral connectors. Social media logic encompasses norms, strategies, mechanisms and economies ac...
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Media reverberations on the ‘red line’: Syria, metaphor and narrative in news media Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Federica Ferrari
This study uses a CADS (Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies) approach to identify a series of axes around which degrees of persuasion can be mapped in debates about international affairs. The author ...
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Multilingual public diplomacy: Strategic communication of Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in Twitter during Operation Guardian of the Walls Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-03-09 José Manuel Moreno-Mercado, Adolfo Calatrava-García
Operation Guardian of the Walls was the most serious military conflict between the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and Palestinian armed groups since 2014. This article aims to explore the Organized Persuasive Communication (OPC) made by IDF, in English, Spanish and French, during the 11 days of the escalation of the war. For this purpose, it has resorted to techniques typical of computational science
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Book Review: The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-02-21 W George Lovell
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Book Review: Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Gretchen Hoak
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Book review: British Media and the Rwandan Genocide Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Catherine Bond
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Messiness in photography, war and transitions to peace: Revisiting Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Rasmus Bellmer, Frank Möller
During and after the wars in ex-Yugoslavia, Bosnia was a laboratory for new photographic approaches to war, violence and civilian suffering. Among these approaches, Fred Ritchin and Gilles Peress’s...
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Post-regime-change Afghan and Iraqi media systems: Strategic ambivalence as technology of media governance Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Mohammed A Salih
This article investigates the governance of post-US invasion Afghan and Iraqi media systems by analyzing provisions pertinent to public broadcasting, licensing, and defamation in 14 laws and policy...
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Drone affective politics against state impunity: The case of 43 disappeared students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Marcela Suarez Estrada
This article analyzes some implications of new drone aesthetics involved in affective politics against state impunity in social conflicts. Whereas the literature on media, war and conflict has been...
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Portrait of liberal chaos: RT’s antagonistic strategic narration about the Netherlands Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Aiden Hoyle, Helma van den Berg, Bertjan Doosje, Martijn Kitzen
Hostile political actors can use antagonistic strategic narration as a means of marring the image of targeted states in the international arena. The current article presents a content analysis of n...
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Iconic war images and the myth of the ‘good American Soldier’ Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Megan MacKenzie
This article explores the ‘good American soldier’ as a gendered ideal type shaped by, and reproductive of, myths about American military success, romantic notions of small-town working and white Am...
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ narratives of non-compliance with norms: Shaming and escaping a narrative trap Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Anna Grzywacz
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been responding to external demands and expectations, including moderate steps towards becoming a more norm-oriented organization, and develop...
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Victims or intruders? Refugee portrayals in the news in Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Emel Ozdora-Aksak, Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Daniela Dimitrova
News shapes audiences’ views of people and events beyond their immediate physical environment. Since the mass migration of refugees from Syria represents one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history, its news coverage necessarily shaped the way global audiences understood the crisis. This qualitative study employs critical discourse analysis (CDA), specifically Van Leeuwen’s Discourse and
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Active agency, access and power Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-08-07 Virpi Salojärvi, Rikke Bjerg Jensen
In this special issue on active agency, access and power, we move beyond media representations of people, objects and events during war and conflict, which often underpin research at the intersection of Media and War Studies. We do so by focusing on active citizenry, participation and journalism in different communication networks, across societies and communities, and from a diversity of perspectives
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Forensic conflict studies: Making sense of war in the social media age Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Jakob Hauter
Online media is a blessing and a curse for academic research on war. On the one hand, the internet provides unprecedented access to information from conflict zones. On the other hand, the prevalenc...
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Russia’s rising military and communication power: From Chechnya to Crimea Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-08-04 James Rodgers, Alexander Lanoszka
Most scholars working on Russia’s use of strategic narratives recognize the importance of the Russian state. Nevertheless, the authors argue that much of the attention on strategic narratives has g...
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‘Scribbled hastily in pencil’: The mediation of World War I Unit War Diaries Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Debra Ramsay
In World War I, the British Army implemented daily record keeping throughout its organization. Despite being crucial to the army’s operational effectiveness and essential for historiography, the history of Unit War Diaries as mediated artefacts has been largely overlooked. This article investigates the interplay of culture, institutional practices and hitherto unnoticed technologies of writing involved
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The making of a narrative: The use of geopolitical othering in Russian strategic narratives during the Ukraine crisis Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Eva Claessen
The events of the crisis in Ukraine (2013–2014) have created an unprecedented rift in EU–Russia relations. The focal point is often put on the long-term development of mutual frustrations due to clashing initiatives in the shared neighbourhood and an overall atmosphere of mistrust. This article makes the case that the culmination of mutual frustrations made its way into official communication and led
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Shifting histories: Film and nationalist mythmaking through trauma Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Sean Rupka
National histories do not simply exist in the past but rather are curated from the present. This curation reveals dominant contemporary dynamics of power and the mythmaking quality of national narr...
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Dangerous or political? Kenyan youth negotiating political agency in the age of ‘new terrorism’ Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-07-16 Miraji Hassan Mohamed
This article examines how the online Kenyan press constructs ‘radicalization’ and how youth challenge these constructions. Using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) through NVivo, the author analyzed two corpora, one of news texts and the second composed of transcripts from two focus group discussions conducted with youth in Mombasa. The analysis shows the media persistently depoliticize youth by constructing
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Looking my (enemy?) in the eyes: An eye-tracking study of simulated virtual intergroup contact Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Nili Steinfeld, Ohad Shaked
This study addresses questions of access and agency as they come into play in intergroup contact. In such a context, access to information about the outgroup and conflict, as well as active agency in the form of engagement in intergroup discussions about the conflict, group identity, goals and compromises, are often a function of the intensity and effect of the contact. Although intergroup contact
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Feeling responsible: Emotion and practical ethics in conflict journalism Media, War & Conflict Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Richard Stupart
This article examines the role of emotion in the practices of journalists reporting on conflict and its effects in South Sudan, based on a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations of the working routines of journalists from Nairobi, Kampala and Juba. Contrary to perceptions of emotion as an akratic failure to reason in a rational, detached manner, obligations felt