Binding: Paperback
Description: Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while at the same time creating opportunities for propaganda censorship and control. Topics discussed include: How is the role of the war reporter evolving as digital technologies become ever more prominent? What is the rhetoric of war in digital journalism? How does an emphasis on liveness immediacy or realness shape public perceptions of the nature of warfare itself? Is technology widening the gap between 'us and 'them' or are new kinds of empathy being established with distant others as time space and place are effectively compressed? A key focus is journalists use of digital imagery real - time video and audio reports multimedia databases as well as satellites broadband podcasting and mobile telephones in the reporting of a range of wars conflicts and crises. The examples analysed range from 24 - hour television news coverage of the Persian Gulf War the first 'internet war in Kosovo digital photography from September 11 to Abu Ghraib and bloggers in Iraq including journalists soldiers and ordinary citizens. Digital War Reporting is required reading for students researchers and journalists.
Title: Digital War Reporting
Author(s): Allan Stuart (Bournemouth University)
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9780745642765
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 12/1/2009
Series: Digital Media and Society
Category: Media Studies