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The media of conflict : war reporting and representations of ethnic violence / edited by Tim Allen and Jean Seaton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Zed Books, 1999Description: 312 pages : illustration ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781856495707
  • 1856495701
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P 96 M489c 1999
Contents:
pt. 1. War, ethnicity, media. Perceiving contemporary wars / Tim Allen -- The new 'ethnic' wars and the media / Jean Seaton -- Ethnic pervasion / Richard Fardon -- 'Who's it between?' 'Ethnic war' and rational violence / David Keen -- A duty of care? Three Granada Television films concerned with war / Peter Loizos -- pt. 2. Manipulation and limits: media coverage of the Gulf War, 1990-91 / Fred Halliday -- Ethnicity and reports of the 1992-95 Bosnian conflict / Marcus Banks and Monica Wolfe Murray -- Culture, media and the politics of disintegration and ethnic division in former Yugoslavia - Spyros A. Sofos -- Nationalism, ethnic antagonism and mass communications in Greece / Roza Tsagarousianou -- Deconstructing media mythologies of ethnic war in Liberia -- Philippa Atkinson -- 'The war in the North': ethnicity in Ugandan press explanations of conflict, 1996-97 / Mark Leopold -- Representing violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe: press and internet debates / Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor -- Media ethnicization and the international response to war and genocide in Rwanda / Mel McNulty -- Misrepresenting Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa? Constraints and dilemmas of current reporting / David Styan.
Summary: Examining how ethnic categorizations have been constructed, this work provides an introductory framework to war and the media.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) P 96 M489c 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000106506

Index

pt. 1. War, ethnicity, media. Perceiving contemporary wars / Tim Allen -- The new 'ethnic' wars and the media / Jean Seaton -- Ethnic pervasion / Richard Fardon -- 'Who's it between?' 'Ethnic war' and rational violence / David Keen -- A duty of care? Three Granada Television films concerned with war / Peter Loizos -- pt. 2. Manipulation and limits: media coverage of the Gulf War, 1990-91 / Fred Halliday -- Ethnicity and reports of the 1992-95 Bosnian conflict / Marcus Banks and Monica Wolfe Murray -- Culture, media and the politics of disintegration and ethnic division in former Yugoslavia - Spyros A. Sofos -- Nationalism, ethnic antagonism and mass communications in Greece / Roza Tsagarousianou -- Deconstructing media mythologies of ethnic war in Liberia -- Philippa Atkinson -- 'The war in the North': ethnicity in Ugandan press explanations of conflict, 1996-97 / Mark Leopold -- Representing violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe: press and internet debates / Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor -- Media ethnicization and the international response to war and genocide in Rwanda / Mel McNulty -- Misrepresenting Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa? Constraints and dilemmas of current reporting / David Styan.

Examining how ethnic categorizations have been constructed, this work provides an introductory framework to war and the media.

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