[Commlist] Special Issue: Media and Terrorism in France. (2019). Media, War & Conflict, 12(2)

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following special issue:
Media and Terrorism in France. (2019). Media, War & Conflict, 12(2) 
-https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/mwc/current
Ed. Katharina Niemeyer and Staffan Ericson

 From live-tweets to archives of the future: Mixed media temporalities 
and the recent French terrorist attacks

Alongside the “arrival” of digital communication technologies in the 
20th century, the experience of time appears to have been altering. 
Hartmut Rosa (2013) has labeled this phenomenon social acceleration and 
François Hartog (2014) has analysed the regime of presentism in relation 
to the difficulty for historical narratives to take shape. These 
tendencies, presumably reinforced with the Web 2.0 and other forms of 
digital capitalism (Wajcman, 2015), concern everyday life communication, 
the work place, economic and financial exchanges but also the routines 
of journalists, newsrooms and war correspondents (see Risso, 2017). This 
evolution has at the same time fostered the so-called slow movements, 
such as slower journalism or slow food: forms and expressions of 
resistance or at least tendecies of (commodified) deceleration. These 
temporal shifts and interplays are also of importance when it comes to 
the question of terrorism, its organization and mediatization.
This special issue does not focus on the way terrorist organizations 
adapt to these new temporal realities or how they use communication 
technologies. Rather, it is interested in how these social changes 
transform and perform – or not (the idea of social acceleration is not 
the explanation for everything) – the way news media narrate terrorist 
attacks, how the reactions to the latter are shared in (online) social 
media and how the public and institutions try to archive traces of the 
event for future historical and commemorative work.

INTRODUCTION
 From live-tweets to archives of the future: Mixed media temporalities 
and the recent French terrorist attacks
Katharina Niemeyer and Staffan Ericson
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219853891(free access)

‘We are at war’: Continuity and rupture in French anti-terrorist discourse
Julien Fragnon
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219846035

Paris and Nice terrorist attacks: Exploring Twitter and web archives
Valérie Schafer, Gérôme Truc, Romain Badouard, Lucien Castex
and Francesca Musiani
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219839382(free access)

 From tweets to graffiti: ‘I am Charlie’ as a ‘writing event’
Maëlle Bazin
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219839395(free access)

The front page as a time freezer: An analysis of the international 
newspaper coverage after the Charlie Hebdo attacks
Katharina Niemeyer
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219839378

Charlie Hebdo, 2015: ‘Liveness’ and acceleration of conflict in a hybrid 
media event
Johanna Sumiala, Minttu Tikka and Katja Valaskivi
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1750635219846033


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