[ecrea] Workshop: New Media, Image War and the War on Terror

New Media, Image War and the War on Terror

Workshop: Swansea University, June 24, 2011
Keir Hardie, Room 216

Co-organized by Dr. Nathan Roger and Dr. Lee Jarvis
Hosted by the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea
University
Co-sponsored by The Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power
and Empire and the Centre for the Study of Culture and Politics (C-SCAP)
at Swansea University and the British International Studies Association
(BISA) Art and Politics Working Group
Supported by the BISA International Communication Working Group

KEYNOTE

Dr. Andrew Hill (The Open University)

The War on Terror, World War I and Lepanto: Three Scopic Economies

INTRODUCTION

The September 11, 2001 terror attacks signalled the start of a war on
terror, it also marked a paradigm shift in warfare: from techno-war–
which dominated the post-Cold War period – to image war. The opening up
of this new image war theatre of war has to date largely been overlooked
by militaries as they have instead decided to focus their attention on
reworking techno-war for the new security challenges of global terrorist
war. This situation is also replicated within academia as many academics
have chosen to rework techno-war for the war on terror. However, it is
not sufficient to merely rework techno-war for image war as this new
theatre of war requires that new strategies be developed in order to
correctly understand it. A growing number of IR and Visual Culture
theorists are now beginning to theorise image war and this workshop will
bring together academics from these different backgrounds to further
develop theory on image war.

The war on terror is simultaneously also taking place in a new media
ecology – participatory media – and this, similar to image war, is also
impacting on contemporary war. A number of academics, in IR and Media
Studies, are currently engaged in theorising the impact of new media on
the war on terror. However, the link between new media and image war is
an area which is relatively under theorised and as such warrants further
investigation. This workshop will bring together academics engaged in
research about the impacts of new media on the war on terror with
academics who are concerned with image war in the war on terror and it
will encourage a cross-fertilisation of ideas between IR, Media Studies
and Visual Culture. The result being, a more sophisticated understanding
of the new security challenges currently posed by global terrorist war
in an age of image war and ongoing new media revolution.


PROGRAMME


9.00-9.30 – Arrive / Registration


9.30-10.00 – Welcome and Introductory Remarks


10.00-11.30 – Keynote: Dr. Andrew Hill (The Open University)
‘The War on Terror, World War I and Lepanto: Three Scopic Economies’


11.30-12.00 – Coffee (Keir Hardie, Room 230)


12.00-13.00 – Dr. Philip Hammond (London South Bank University)
‘Image War: Causes, Conduct and Consequences’


13.00-14.00 – Lunch (Keir Hardie, Room 230)


14.00-15.30 – Annie Bryan (PhD Student, Swansea University)
‘Televising Terror: (New) Media Images in 7/7’s Live Coverage and
Commemoration’

– Ian Jackson (PhD Student, Lancaster University)
‘Image War and the Blogosphere: Does the Increasing Ubiquity of New
Media Vectors Necessitate a Paradigm Shift in the Way Traditional Media
Forms War?’


15.30-16.00 – Coffee (Keir Hardie, Room 230)


16.00-17.00 – Professor Gillian Youngs (University of Wales, Newport)
‘New Media in Historical Context: Communication and the Politics of
Space in Warfare’


17.00-17.15 – Concluding Remarks


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Dr. Maura Conway
Lecturer
School of Law&   Government
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland

Tel. +353 1 700 6472
E-Mail. (maura.conway /at/ dcu.ie)
Skype. galwaygrrl

Twitter: http://twitter.com/TNMConference


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