Media

Review – Icons of War and Terror

Jeff Lewis • Dec 27 2012 • Features

Icons of War and Terror examines the ways in which the media construct iconic images of lethal violence, particularly within the context of American global hegemony.

Getting Somalia Wrong

Mary Harper • May 9 2012 • Articles

By presenting Somalia as the world’s worst country, elements of the media are not only doing Somalia a disservice, they are blinding the world to the opportunities the country has to offer.

Western Armed Forces and the Mass Media in Historical Perspective

Stephen Badsey • Mar 8 2012 • Articles

The appearance of social media is less a major change than simply one more development in the long history of propaganda. In focussing on technological changes, governments and their armed forces miss the wider political and social issues.

Be Concerned but not Informed: Radical Islamic Terrorism and Mainstream Media since 9/11

Ben O'Loughlin • Sep 20 2011 • Articles

We are routinely presented with the image of an angry bearded man, possibly a clip from a video linked to Al-Qaeda, and then an unspecific warning of an imminent threat. We are asked to be concerned, but not allowed to be informed. The implicit equivalence of margin with radical and radical with violence makes for perpetual insecurity in modern societies.

The Hidden Media Powers That Undermine Democracy

John Keane • Sep 5 2011 • Articles

We could say that all popularly elected governments are today proactively engaged in clever, cunning struggles to kidnap their clients and citizens mentally through the manipulation of appearances, with the help of accredited journalists and other public relations curators. The age of organised political contrivance is upon us. How and why has this happened?

The Role of the Media in Peace Building, Conflict Management, and Prevention

Nora Kuusik • Aug 28 2010 • Articles

Freedom of expression is the core of a healthy media, a fundamental human right, and vital for a democratic structure. Lack of information can, at any stage of a conflict, make people desperate, restless and easy to manipulate. The potential of the media in conflict and post-conflict situations remains a net positive, and has been sadly underutilized to this point in time

Swine flu calls into question the meaning of global health security

Alan Ingram • Apr 29 2009 • Articles

The current swine flu outbreak takes place amidst ongoing international efforts to establish a system of global health security. While considerable progress towards this goal has been made, serious unresolved problems mean that the concept and practice of global health security is likely to face severe challenges.

Will Power? Neoconservative Commentary of the Iraq Crisis

James Whitcomb Riley • Mar 14 2008 • Articles

“The neoconservative way . . . is to put an enormous emphasis on the importance of will in confronting and changing the world. America is currently in as unfavorable a position as it is because, more than anything, of a failure of will . . . [I]t can overcome adverse circumstances and prevail again by the mobilization and determined exercise of will.” –Owen Harries

The Civilian Surge: Liberal Foreign Policy, Intervention and the Internet

Simon Collister • Mar 10 2008 • Articles

British foreign policy under the stewardship of David Miliband has maintained its universalist outlook but shifted its agenda from a distinctly top-down approach to a grassroots drive for what Miliband has called a ‘Civilian Surge’. This subtle shift is in part brought about by Miliband’s progressive liberal ideology but also by his interest in and support for new technology. But for all his enthusiastic rhetoric, is Miliband’s drive for a bottom-up approach to foreign policy the right one?

Smile For the Camera: Prince Harry in Afghanistan

Jennifer Morgan Jones • Mar 6 2008 • Articles

I have to wonder why it was so incredibly important that Prince Harry be sent to a war zone in the first place. I have nothing but respect for soldiers who face combat in the front lines of Afghanistan, Harry included. His desire to serve his country and make a difference in the world by putting himself in physical danger is admirably brave, just as it is for any other man or woman who signs up to do the job. However, Harry is not just any other man, no matter how desperately he wants to be considered this way.

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