[ecrea] CfP Book Series on "Visual Reporting of War Terror, "

CfP Book Series on "Visual Reporting of War Terror," published by 
Cambridge Scholars and Edited by Ibrahim Saleh & Thomas Knieper

CfP Book Series: Visual Reporting of War Terror (Published by Cambridge 
Scholars) Editors:
                              Ibrahim 
Saleh                                                                                                                  
Thomas Knieper
                              University of Cape Town, South 
Africa                                                                          
University of Passau, Germany

                                                                                                 Deadline (February 15, 2015)

This book series on Visual Reporting of War Terror focuses on assessing 
the coverage of war, so we are looking for contributors who investigate 
connections to the daily practice of journalism in text, images and videos.

Ever since the Vietnam War, media globalisation has made conflict a part 
of everyone’s life in this modern world. This is where the war reporters 
play the crucial role of mediators to bring us stories covering the 
various dimensions of war from some of the most vulnerable places of the 
earth.

This book series on Visual Reporting of War Terror invited original 
research papers that explore the visual culture of conflict, 
specifically the ‘war on terror grounded in the conceptual claim that 
images are central to contemporary geopolitics. We encounter other 
people and places though a "field of perceptible reality" enabled by 
visual representations.

Because the ‘war on terror’ was understood as a new type of conflict, 
fought against an “elusive enemy” in disparate and dispersed locations, 
visualizing the event was always going to be a challenge.

The internet also brings war and conflict into homes around the world 
more immediately than ever before, but with the torrent of data, images 
and videos comes confusion and propaganda. It demands a new kind of war 
reporting – one which can make sense of digital evidence, and use the 
decentralised web as a tool for undermining the enforced narratives of 
the powerful.

The new wars are accompanied by a spiral of visual terror. W.J.T. 
Mitchell is talking about "Cloning Terror". Furthermore one should talk 
about the ethical challenges.

Embedded journalism has contributed to the centrality of absence to the 
visualisation of the war on terror. However, this practice has also been 
constrained by the way the media generally offers a limited challenge to 
established positions.

In this context, calling for an unsanitised view of the war is bound to 
be insufficient as a strategy for challenging the official photographic 
narratives. This edited volume Visual Reporting of War Terror aims to 
offer alternative views, aesthetic strategies, pluralises perspectives, 
and seeks to overcome the absences that have marked the pictorial 
coverage to date. Manuscripts:

Manuscripts eligible to be published as articles include full length 
research with a maximum length of 7,000 words (excluding abstract, 
tables, figures, and references), a total of no more than 5 tables 
and/or figures, and no more than 75 references.

Academic manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including all 
quotations and footnotes). Full names of the author(s) should be given, 
a full address for correspondence, and where possible a contact 
telephone number. Authors should include an abstract of 100 to 150 
words, and 5key words under which the article should be indexed. Current 
and recent academic and professional affiliations should be supplied for 
inclusion in “Notes on Contributors,” together with a list of major 
p!ublications (with dates and name of publisher) and forthcoming books.

References

Authors should confirm to APA style. Thus authors should use inside 
reference style rather than footnotes. Authors will be required to 
secure permission if they want to reproduce any type of material, or 
extract from the text of another source. This applies to direct 
reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have 
created a new figure or table which derives substantially

from a copyrighted source).

Types of Contributions

Standard Papers - report practical or theoretical research and typically 
comprise up to 12 typeset pages. Longer articles are also considered, 
provided the content justifies the extent.

Ibrahim Saleh, Ph.D.
Convenor of Political Communication Programme at the Centre For Film & 
Media Studies, University of Cape Town (UCT); Chair of the Journalism 
Research and Education Section in the International Association for 
Media & Communication Research (IAMCR);Journal of "Transnational Worlds 
of Power": Proliferation of Journalism and Professional Practices and 
Editor of Global Media Journal African Edition.
Email: (Ibrahim.Saleh /at/ uct.ac.za),(Isaleh /at/ aucegypt.edu),(jre09is /at/ gmail.com) & 
(librasma /at/ gmail.com)
Office: A130.
Phone: 4837 (UCT internal), or locally 021 650 4837
Personal website:http://cfms.uct.ac.za/staff/ibrahim-saleh-phd/
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