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Author
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy no longer depends on traditional media. This is the "YouTube War." This monograph methodically lays out the nature...
6) Selling war: the role of the mass media in hostile conflicts from World War I to the 'War on Terror'
Publisher
Intellect
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
7) War & truth
Publisher
Cinema Libre Sudio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
War & Truth chronicles the history of embedded journalists from WWII to today. When the United States went to war with Iraq, more than two thousand journalists charged across the Iraqi desert to document history and send the story home. Not everything they saw made it into the newspaper or onto the television news. This film details the courage and frustrations of journalists who risk their lives on the front lines. It dares to bring to light the...
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The contributors examine historical and contemporary examples that reflect the role of the media or mass communication or both during wartime. The essays highlight the centrality of communication to the perpetuation and to the resolution of war, suggesting that the symbiotic relationship between communication and war is as important to understand as war itself"--Provided by publisher.