The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: War Coverage and Peace Journalism
Berlin: Regener (2014), 362 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Friedens- und Demokratiepsychologie, 11
ISBN 978-3-936014-31-0
"Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a natural laboratory for studying possibilities and limitations of constructive conflict coverage, the present book combines a longitudinal retrospective look at the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with experimental research on audience reactions and theoretical questions of conflict, war and peace coverage.
The editors aimed at utilizing these materials to learn about changes in media framing and representation of issues, actors, and leaders; to focus on problems of war coverage and peace journalism, such as the persistence of a war orientation in media culture and performance, and the extent to which the media have “matured” so as to change this normative orientation in favor of an increased contribution to peacemaking and peacekeeping; and to study and criticize peace journalism thought, research and action after some twenty years since its emergence." (Publisher description)
The editors aimed at utilizing these materials to learn about changes in media framing and representation of issues, actors, and leaders; to focus on problems of war coverage and peace journalism, such as the persistence of a war orientation in media culture and performance, and the extent to which the media have “matured” so as to change this normative orientation in favor of an increased contribution to peacemaking and peacekeeping; and to study and criticize peace journalism thought, research and action after some twenty years since its emergence." (Publisher description)
Peace journalism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: An introduction, 7
PART I: THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
1 Reflections on media war coverage: Dissonance, dilemmas, and the need for improvement / Dov Shinar, 21
2 Peace journalism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the German press and the German public / Wilhelm Kempf, 40
3 Media peace discourse: Constraints, concepts and building blocks / Dov Shinar, 51
PART II: THE ISRAELI MEDIA
4 The peace process in cultural conflict: The role of the media / Dov Shinar, 63
5 The changing image of the enemy in the news discourse of Israeli newspapers, 1993-1994 / Lea Mandelzis, 76
6 Changes in the political, social, and media environments and their impact on the coverage of conflict: The case of the Arab citizens of Israel / Anat First & Eli Avraham, 92
7 Enemies, fellow victims, or the forgotten? News coverage of Israeli Arabs in the 21st century / Anat First, 114
PART III: U.S. AND CANADIAN MEDIA
8 Framing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in thirteen months of New York 77/7?e5editorials surrounding the attack of September 11, 2001 / Susan Dente Ross, 133
9 Discourses of blame and responsibility: U.S./Canadian media representations of Palestinian-Israeli relations / Bruno Baltodano, Jared Bishop, Jay Hmielowski, Jezreel Kang-Graham, Andrew Morozov, Brion White & Susan Dente Ross, 147
PART IV: THE GERMAN PRESS
10 Coverage of the Second Intifada and the Gaza War in the German quality press / Markus Maurer & Wilhelm Kempf, 163
11 Representations of victimization and responsibility during the Second Intifada and the Gaza War in German quality newspapers / Felix Gaisbauer, 188
PART V: AUDIENCE REACTIONS
12 A Palestinean state - yes or no? Constructing political discourse in the Israeli print news media: An experimental design / Samuel Peleg & Eitan Alimi, 225
13 The impact of political news on German students' assessments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Wilhelm Kempf, 245
14 On the interaction between media frames and individual frames of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Wilhelm Kempf & Stephanie Thiel, 267
15 Audience reactions to peace journalism: How supporters and critics of the Israeli policy process escalation and de-escalation oriented media frames / Stephanie Thiel & Wilhelm Kempf, 291
PART I: THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
1 Reflections on media war coverage: Dissonance, dilemmas, and the need for improvement / Dov Shinar, 21
2 Peace journalism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the German press and the German public / Wilhelm Kempf, 40
3 Media peace discourse: Constraints, concepts and building blocks / Dov Shinar, 51
PART II: THE ISRAELI MEDIA
4 The peace process in cultural conflict: The role of the media / Dov Shinar, 63
5 The changing image of the enemy in the news discourse of Israeli newspapers, 1993-1994 / Lea Mandelzis, 76
6 Changes in the political, social, and media environments and their impact on the coverage of conflict: The case of the Arab citizens of Israel / Anat First & Eli Avraham, 92
7 Enemies, fellow victims, or the forgotten? News coverage of Israeli Arabs in the 21st century / Anat First, 114
PART III: U.S. AND CANADIAN MEDIA
8 Framing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in thirteen months of New York 77/7?e5editorials surrounding the attack of September 11, 2001 / Susan Dente Ross, 133
9 Discourses of blame and responsibility: U.S./Canadian media representations of Palestinian-Israeli relations / Bruno Baltodano, Jared Bishop, Jay Hmielowski, Jezreel Kang-Graham, Andrew Morozov, Brion White & Susan Dente Ross, 147
PART IV: THE GERMAN PRESS
10 Coverage of the Second Intifada and the Gaza War in the German quality press / Markus Maurer & Wilhelm Kempf, 163
11 Representations of victimization and responsibility during the Second Intifada and the Gaza War in German quality newspapers / Felix Gaisbauer, 188
PART V: AUDIENCE REACTIONS
12 A Palestinean state - yes or no? Constructing political discourse in the Israeli print news media: An experimental design / Samuel Peleg & Eitan Alimi, 225
13 The impact of political news on German students' assessments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Wilhelm Kempf, 245
14 On the interaction between media frames and individual frames of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Wilhelm Kempf & Stephanie Thiel, 267
15 Audience reactions to peace journalism: How supporters and critics of the Israeli policy process escalation and de-escalation oriented media frames / Stephanie Thiel & Wilhelm Kempf, 291
