Textbook
War and MediaISBN: 978-0-7456-3850-8
Paperback
300 pages
July 2010, ©2010, Polity
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Radical Philosophy
"The most singular feature of Hoskins and O'Loughlin's'
achievement in their comprehensive sweep of scholarship in this
multi-disciplinary field of war and media is its critical
assessment of existing paradigms and theories, and the development
of new ones. The work represents an important and ground-breaking
milestone in the development of this relatively new specialism
about one of the oldest and most important spheres of human
experience."
Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State
University
"Whether we approach the field of contemporary war and
communications through preferred optics of 'control', 'chaos' or
perhaps 'complexity', this book challenges us all - and rightly so.
It invites us to take seriously how today's media ecology not only
mediates contemporary wars, but becomes insinuated inside the
course and conduct of warfare itself."
Simon Cottle, Cardiff University
"In today's new environment of an apparent never-ending war on
terror, governments put together their media strategy with as much
care as they construct their military one. This important book
helps us understand the fragile relationship between war and media
and examine it with a fresh and informed eye."
Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, a
history of war correspondents and propaganda