[ecrea] Media, War & Conflict 5th Anniversary Conference

Call for papers

Media, War & Conflict Fifth Anniversary Conference

11-12 April 2013

Royal Holloway, University of London

250 word abstracts to (Lisa.Dacunha /at/ rhul.ac.uk) by 10 October 2012.

Media, War & Conflict’s fifth anniversary conference will be held on 
11-12 April 2013 at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference 
is open to scholars, journalists, military practitioners and activists 
from around the world.

Keynote speakers confirmed so far:

* Jamie Shea, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging 
Security Challenges
* Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, 
University of Pennsylvania
* Cees Hamelink, Emeritus Professor of International Communication at 
the University of Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor for Media, Religion 
and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

The journal was first published in April 2008, bringing together 
international scholars and journalists from the fields of political 
science, history, and communication, and military, NGO and journalist 
practitioners. The aim was to map the shifting arena of war, conflict 
and terrorism in an increasingly mediated age, and to explore cultural, 
political and technological transformations in media-military relations, 
journalistic practices and digital media, and their impact on policy, 
publics, and outcomes of warfare. The fifth anniversary conference 
offers the chance to showcase the best research in this field while also 
taking stock of how the field has developed and identifying the emerging 
challenges we face.

We invite papers on a range of topics, including:

* Contemporary and historical war reporting
* Changing forms of credibility, legitimacy and authority
* Media ethics in the coverage of conflict
* The role of citizen-users and social media in conflict
* Terrorism, media and publics
* Intelligence operations and media
* Digital and cyber warfare
* Media and conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict scenarios
* Photo and video journalism in wartime
* War and conflict in popular culture
* The power of the visual and other modalities
* Commemoration and memorialisation of war and conflict

The deadline for abstracts is 10 October 2012. Please submit 250-word 
abstracts and author-affiliation details to (Lisa.Dacunha /at/ rhul.ac.uk).





Ben O'Loughlin

Professor of International Relations

Royal Holloway University of London

Department of Politics and International Relations

Egham

Surrey TW20 0EX



Tel: +44 (0)1784 443153

Email: (Ben.OLoughlin /at/ rhul.ac.uk)



Homepage: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/politics-and-IR/About-Us/OLoughlin/

Blog: http://newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/

Journal: Media, War & Conflict at www.sagepub.co.uk/mwc

Latest books: War and Media: http://amzn.to/9HQfWE

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