- What is gatekeeping and agenda setting?
- How are the media making us all witnesses?
- How do you explain that war is fought thgrough the memory of warfare?
- Why may journalism be a demanding - or even dangerous - profession?
- When can we say a story or event fullfills the shared news values necessary to get coverage?
The lecture
Browse through the lecture presentation below.
The literature
- Hodkinson, P. (2011). Media, culture and society. Chap. 7. 23p.
- Hoskins, A., & O’Loughlin, B. (2010). War and media. Chap. 4 & 6. 41 p.
- Oates, S. (2008). Introduction to media and politics. Chap. 3. 15p.
Watch relevant videos
Israeli Soldiers Talk Openly On Operation Cast Lead
Janine di Giovanni: What I saw in the war
Tiananmen's Legacy of State-Sponsored Amnesia
Watch more on the YouTube playlist
Useful links
Witnessing
- Beaumont, P. (2014, June 8). Stories from an occupation: the Israelis who broke silence. The Guardian.
- Bleasdale, M. (2013). The Power of Photography to Witness.
- Blumenthal, R. (2013a, September 4). A Veteran Reporter Reflects on a Distant War.
- Blumenthal, R. (2013b, September 4). Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era. The New York Times.
- Breaking the Silence : Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories.
- Brown, L. (2014, February 14). Photojournalism in the Palestinian Territories.
- Caryl, C. (2013, September 5). Just Show It. Foreign Policy.
- Elstein, D. (2014, April 3). The BBC’s Great War.
- Friedersdorf, C. (2013, September 3). The Press and the Syria Debate: Neither Neutral Nor Balanced.
- Hansen, A. (2014, July 19). Med Israel for fred: - Mads Gilbert lyver om Israel Gilbert: - Utrolig tynt skvip.
- Kalbakk, P. A., Beverfjord, A., & Berge, K. M. (2014, August 27). Ingen ubalanse i NRKs Gaza-dekning. Aftenposten.
- Klepke, A., & Olsson, K. (n.d.). On the frontline: citizen journalism in Syria.
- Krauss, C. (1992, January 12). Congressman Says Girl Was Credible.
- Mohan, A. V. (2013, September 16). Journalism in Syria is fast becoming a one-way ticket to death.
- New York Times. (1992, January 15). Deception on Capitol Hill.
- Wang, Z. (2014, March 11). “Missing Histories”: History Education and China-Japan Relations.
- Washington Post. (n.d.). The Pentagon Papers.
Memory
- Basu, T. (2014, August 15). The Fading Memory of South Asia’s Partition.
- Elstein, D. (2014, May 3). The BBC’s Great War: a response by David Elstein.
- Frum, D. (2014, August 2). Photographs as Weapons of War in the Middle East.
- Ghafar, A. A. (2013, August 7). Egypt’s framing wars of June 30th.
- Grann, D. (2014, August 29). The Heartbreaking Stories That Filled My Notebook After 9/11. The New Republic.
- Keck, Z. (2014a, August 23). Resolving Asia’s History Wars Once and for All.
- Keck, Z. (2014b, August 30). The Great Myth: World War I Was No Accident.
- Koike, Y. (2014, August 28). Ending East Asia’s History Wars.
- Lu, R. (2014, August 12). A Controversial New TV Series Awakens China’s Historical Ghosts. Foreign Policy.
- Panda, A. (2014, August 28). Shinzo Abe Sent Note to Ceremony Honoring War Criminals.
- Sa’di, A. H., & Abu-Lughod, L. (2007). Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Columbia University Press.
- Solomon, B. (2014, July 27). A Sad, Pointless War.
- Tharoor, S. (2014, August 19). The Great War’s Forgotten Soldiers.
- Thomas, S. (2014, August 24). Collective memory, collective trauma, collective hatred.
- Zand, B. (2014, June 6). How China Is Erasing Memories of Tianenmen. Spiegel Online.
