- What is "media management" in war?
- How are the development of media vectors influencing the mediation of war?
- How do you explain national media's tendency for patrioting reporting?
- Why may new media contribute to diffused wars?
- When can we say wars have legitimacy among citizens?
The lecture
Browse through the lecture on War, which is part of my BA-course in Media & Politics at Lillehammer University College.
The literature:
- Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 7 & 9. 70p.
- Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 6. 18p.
Watch relevant videos
Philip Seib: Digital Diplomacy
Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks
Dexter Filkins: Tales From the Front Lines (Reporting From Iraq and Afghanistan)
Watch more from the YouTube playlist here
Useful links
- Cheng, D. (n.d.). Winning Without Fighting: The Chinese Psychological Warfare Challenge. The Heritage Foundation.
- Democracy Now. (2013, January 22). Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley’s New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare. Democracy Now!
- Keating, J. E. (2013, February 22). Does Hollywood Have a Foreign Policy? Foreign Policy.
- Seitz-Wald, A. (2013, September 13). The Public Relations Firm Straight Out of a John Grisham Novel. The Atlantic.
- Nye Jr, J. S. (2013, September 9). The Mouse Click that Roared. Project Syndicate.
- Cohen, M. (2002). How Bush Sr. Sold the Gulf War. Counterpunch, (Weekend Edition December 28.-30).
- Cull, N. J. (2006). “The Perfect War”: US Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting During Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 1990/1991. Arab Media & Society, (Fall).
- New York Times. (1992, January 15). Deception on Capitol Hill. New York Times.
- Caryl, C. (2013, September 5). Just Show It. Foreign Policy.
- Friedersdorf, C. (2013, September 3). The Press and the Syria Debate: Neither Neutral Nor Balanced. The Atlantic.
- Garber, M. (2013, September 5). Assad’s Bizarre Instagram Account: Propaganda With a Comments Section. The Atlantic.
- Kirchick, J. (2013, September 13). Public Editing Putin. Foreign Policy.
- Tepperman, J. (2013, September 8). Weighing War, Peace and Polls. The New York Times.
- Putin, V. V. (2013, September 11). A Plea for Caution From Russia. The New York Times.
- Smith, R. (2013, September 16). A complicated relationship: Libya, Syria and the international press. openDemocracy.
- Suri, J. (2013, September 16). Offensive Charm. Foreign Affairs.
- Trenin, D. (2013, September 13). The West Just Doesn’t Get Putin. Bloomberg. Retrieved September 14, 2013, from
- Mohan, A. V. (2013, September 16). Journalism in Syria is fast becoming a one-way ticket to death. openDemocracy.
