War and Media

Acknowledgements x

List of Tables and Figures xi

1 Introduction 1

1. Diffused War 3

2. The Two Phases of Mediatization 15

3. Conclusion 18

2 Images 20

1. Introduction: Do Images of War Show or Hide? 20

2. Photograph and Flux 23

3. Mediality 26

4. Emergence 30

5. Saddam Hussein’s Execution 32

6. Conclusion 35

3 Compassion 37

1. Introduction: What is Compassion Fatigue? 37

2. Why News Values Keep Some Stories Off the Radar 39

3. Exploring Spectator–Sufferer Relations 44

4. How Do Media Enable or Restrict Compassion? 53

5. Conclusion 59

4 Witness 61

1. Introduction 61

2. Representation and the Truth of War 63

3. Witnessing 69

4. Conclusion 85

5 Genocide 86

1. Introduction 86

2. Premediation and the Holocaust 89

3. Media Templates 91

4. The Trnopolje Camp Images 94

5. Towards an Ethics of Images 97

6. Emergence 102

6 Memory 104

1. The Diffusion of Media and Memory 104

2. The Second Memory Boom 106

3. Media and Holocaust Memory 108

4. From Witness to Embodied Memories 112

5. The Third Memory Boom 116

7 Vectors 120

1. Vectors and Globalization 122

2. Controlling Vectors 126

3. Emergent Vectors 136

4. Conclusion 143

8 Radicalization 145

1. The Mediatization of Radicalization 147

2. Diffuse Relations Between Cause and Effect 150

3. Uncertainty for Policymakers and Journalists Enables ‘Hypersecurity’ to Emerge 155

4. Conclusion 160

9 Legitimacy 162

1. Introduction: Legitimacy, Representation, Discourse 162

2. The Power of Representations 164

3. Diffuse War Axes of Representation 169

4. Translation and Legitimacy 179

5. Conclusion 183

10 Methods 185

1. Identifying Effects amid Ubiquitous Media 186

2. How Do We Analyse Media Practices? 188

3. How Do We Analyse Discursive Linking? Nexus Analysis 189

4. Conclusion 191

Notes 193

References 198

Further Reading 217

Name Index 218

Subject Index 223