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Media and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2005), x, 242 pp.

Contains illustrations, index

ISBN 978-1-349-53059-5 (pbk); 978-1-4039-8033-5 (ebook)

"This collection of essays explores current issues surrounding the media and conflict in the Twenty-first Century. Essays will look at the role of evolving media technologies, the globalization of television and communications, public diplomacy, gender and war coverage, terrorism, and other issues." (Publisher description)
1 Effects of Global Television News on U.S. Policy in International Conflict / Eytan Gilboa, 1
2 International News and Advanced Information Technology: Changing the Institutional Domination Paradigm? / Steven Livingston, W. Lance Bennett, and W. Lucas Robinson, 33
3 Getting to War: Communications and Mobilization in the 2002-03 Iraq Crisis / Robin Brown, 57
4 The Internet, Politics, and Missile Defense / Jayne Rodgers, 83
5 The Missing Public in U.S. Public Diplomacy: Exploring the News Media's Role in Developing an American Constituency / Kathy Fitzpatrick and Tamara Kosic, 105
6 Characteristics of War Coverage by Female Correspondents / Cinny Kennard and Sheila T. Murphy, 127
7 The Real War Will Never Get on Television: An Analysis of Casualty Imagery in American Television Coverage of the Iraq War / Sean Aday, 141
8 News Coverage of the Bosnian War in Dutch Newspapers: Impact and Implications / Nel Ruigrok, Jan A. de Ridder, Otto Scholten, 157
9 Terrorist Web Sites: Their Contents, Functioning, and Effectiveness / Maura Conway, 185
10 The News Media and "the Clash of Civilizations" / Philip Seib, 217