The Media and Peace

The Media and Peace
Author: G. Spencer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2005-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230505503

Much is known about the media's role in conflict, but far less is known about the media's role in peace. Graham Spencer's study addresses this deficiency by providing a comparative analysis of reporting conflicts from around the world and examining media receptiveness to the development of peace. This book establishes an argument for the need to rethink journalistic responsibility in relation to peace and interrogates the consequences of news coverage that emphasizes conflict over peace.

Peace Journalism

Peace Journalism
Author: Jake Lynch
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1907359478

Peace Journalism explains how most coverage of conflict unwittingly fuels further violence, and proposes workable options to give peace a chance.

Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution

Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution
Author: Richard Keeble
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781433107269

Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution draws together the work of over twenty leading international writers, journalists, theorists and campaigners in the field of peace journalism. Mainstream media tend to promote the interests of the military and governments in their coverage of warfare. This major new text aims to provide a definitive, up-to-date, critical, engaging and accessible overview exploring the role of the media in conflict resolution. Sections focus in detail on theory, international practice, and critiques of mainstream media performance from a peace perspective; countries discussed include the U.S., U.K., Germany, Cyprus, Sweden, Canada, India, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines. Chapters examine a wide variety of issues including mainstream newspapers, indigenous media, blogs and radical alternative websites. The book includes a foreword by award-winning investigative journalist John Pilger and a critical afterword by cultural commentator Jeffery Klaehn.

Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence

Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence
Author: Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-01-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1136512209

This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa. Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the ‘other’; by encouraging audiences to fight, to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater good. Part Two explores how film can bear witness to past acts of violence, how film-makers can reveal the search for truth, justice and reconciliation, and how new media can become sites for non-violent responses to terrorism and government oppression. To what extent can popular media arts contribute to imagining and building peace, transforming weapons into art, swords into ploughshares? Jolyon Mitchell skillfully combines personal narrative, practical insight and academic analysis.

Peace Through Media

Peace Through Media
Author: Leara D. Rhodes
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Journalism
ISBN: 9781433130243

The search for peace: why peace journalism is needed today -- Peace journalism: definition and history -- Peace journalism: theoretical approaches -- Populations affected by conflict -- Violence: the nature of contemporary warfare and media's -- Contribution to covering violence -- Journalists' work to include working with citizen journalists -- How to search for truth when there are lies, bias and propaganda -- Activism and social media -- How governments use media during conflict -- Action plan: teaching peace journalism -- The future: dialogue.

Media and Political Conflict

Media and Political Conflict
Author: Gadi Wolfsfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521589673

The news media have become the central arena for political conflicts today. It is, therefore, not surprising that the role of the news media in political conflicts has received a good deal of public attention in recent years. Media and Political Conflict provides readers with an understanding of the ways in which news media do and do not become active participants in these conflicts. The author's 'political contest' model provides an alternative approach to this important issue. The best way to understand the role of the news media in politics, he argues, is to view the competition over the news media as part of a larger and more significant contest for political control. The book is divided into two parts. While the first is devoted to developing the theoretical model, the second employs this approach to analyse the role of the news media in three conflicts: the Gulf war, the Palestinian intifada, and the attempt by the Israeli right wing to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

Peace Journalism Principles and Practices

Peace Journalism Principles and Practices
Author: Steven Youngblood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317299744

Long-time peace journalist Steven Youngblood presents the foundations of peace journalism in this exciting new textbook, offering readers the methods, approaches, and concepts required to use journalism as a tool for peace, reconciliation, and development. Guidance is offered on framing stories, ethical treatment of sensitive subjects, and avoiding polarizing stereotypes through a range of international examples and case studies spanning from the Iraq war to the recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Youngblood teaches students to interrogate traditional media narratives about crime, race, politics, immigration, and civil unrest, and to illustrate where—and how—a peace journalism approach can lead to more responsible and constructive coverage, and even assist in the peace process itself.

Reporting Conflict

Reporting Conflict
Author: Jake Lynch
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780702237676

Introducing a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peacebuilding. Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, the media decides the issues for public debate.

Expanding Peace Journalism

Expanding Peace Journalism
Author: Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1743320450

This major new text explores and interrogates peace journalism as a significant challenge to this hegemonic discourse, which has been advocated and elaborated over the recent years in journalism, media development and academic spheres.

The Mediatization of War and Peace

The Mediatization of War and Peace
Author: Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 311070739X

During the First World War, mass media achieved an enormous and continuously growing importance in all belligerent countries. Newspaper, illustrated magazines, comics, pamphlets, and instant books, fi ctional works, photography, and the new-born “theater of imagery”, the cinema, were crucial in order to create a heroic vision of the events, to mobilize and maintain the consensus on the war. But their role was pivotal also in creating the image of the war’s end and fi nally, together with a widespread, new literary genre, the war memoirs, to shape the collective memory of the confl ict for the next generations. Even before November 1918, the media raised high expectations for a multifaceted peace: a new global order, the beginning of a peaceful era, the occasion for a regenerating apocalypse. Likewise, in the following decades, particularly war literature and cinema were pivotal to reverse the icon of the Great War as an epic crusade and a glorious chapter of the national history and to create the hegemonic image of a senseless carnage. The Mediatization of War and Peace focalizes on the central role played by mass media in the tortuous transition to the post-war period as well as on the profound disenchantment generated by their prophesies.