[ecrea] New Book on Media and War

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.


Back Cover information

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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