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[ecrea] New Book on Media and War

Sat Sep 09 07:33:14 GMT 2017





Research center CRICIS announces the publication of the book /The Embedding Apparatus : Media Surveillance during the Iraq War/ by Aimé-Jules Bizimana (associate professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais-UQO and regular member at CRICIS) in the American Politics and Global Affairs collection by the publisher Peter Lang in New York. This book is the translation by Evan Light (professor at Glendon College of York University and associate member of CRICIS) of the French edition /Le dispositif embedding/ published by Les Presses de l’Université du Québec in Quebec City in 2014.

This book analyzes the control of information during the war in Iraq and the relations between the embedded reporters and the US military. It is a case study based on testimonies from participants, journalists and military. The analysis reveals how the balance of power between the army and the media is exercised through the combination of several surveillance apparatuses in the field.


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When the war in Iraq began in 2003, the issue of the special status accorded to journalists covering the military operations arose quite naturally.  Promising innovation, the Pentagon's announcement that they would integrate hundreds of journalists into combat units - what has been known as /embedding/ - attracted the attention of the international media and other observers. How would this be different from previous interactions between the military and the media?

/    The Embedding Apparatus/explains the functioning of the informational control apparatus at work during the Iraq War and the relationships between embedded journalists and the military in the American army's area of operations. The concept of the /apparatus/ guides this case study, one that brings together the experiences of almost forty participants, journalists and military personnel. The study borrows Michel Foucault's modern surveillance mechanisms of the disciplinary apparatus and the panoptic apparatus, bringing embedded journalism into close contact with the ubiquitous and flexible surveillance that characterizes the "control society". The author exposes a new /embedding/ apparatus where the power relations between journalists and the military are at play, an apparatus operating within a circumscribed space where all a journalist's movements, reporting, behavior and communications are surveilled.

    This book offers a fresh insight into this important issue and will certainly be of interest worldwide to scholars and students as well as media and military practitionners interested in this topic. Embedded journalim is studied from a new angle, one related to the boader context of surveillance in contemporary society.

Aimé-Jules Bizimana is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). He is also a researcher at the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la communication, l'information et la société (CRICIS). He is the author of /De Marcel Ouimet à René Lévesque: Les correspondants de guerre canadiens-français durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale/ (2007). Dr. Bizimana's research looks at war-time journalism practices and communication issues.



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