The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence (review)

Africa Today ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-178
Author(s):  
Jo Ellen Fair
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
The Media ◽  
War Reporting

Interpreting Teenage Inter-Ethnic Violence

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 301-321
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Local People ◽  
Group Conflict ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
School Youth

AbstractAn ethnography of a particular locality within London - Euston - provides the basis for an analysis of the complex causes behind conflict between groups from 1991 to 1995. The groups consist of teenage boys drawn from various 'races' of popular discourse and I shall investigate the alliances and antagonisms which these boys believe to be linked to ethnic difference. The key institutional centres for inter-group conflict are the school, youth club and the street and my analysis examines the instances of violence which take place in those contexts principally between Bangladeshis and others. I conclude that the violence described is less important than drug abuse and the long-term effects of unemployment. The major problem concerning inter-ethnic violence are the stereotypical reactions by both local people and outsiders, i.e. the media and anti-racists.

scholarly journals From Vietnam to Iraq: Negative trends in television war reporting

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Tony Maniaty
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Right To Know ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalism Students ◽  
War Reporting ◽  
Culturally Embedded

In 1876, an American newspaperman with the US 7th Cavalry, Mark Kellogg, declared: ‘I go with Custer, and will be at the death.’ This overtly heroic pronouncement embodies what many still want to believe is the greatest role in journalism: to go up to the fight, to be with ‘the boys’, to expose yourself to risk, to get the story and the blood-soaked images, to vividly describe a world of strength and weakness, of courage under fire, of victory and defeat—and, quite possibly, to die. So culturally embedded has this idea become that it raises hopes among thousands of journalism students worldwide that they too might become that holiest of entities in the media pantheon, the television war correspondent. They may find they have left it too late. Accompanied by evolutionary technologies and breathtaking media change, TV war reporting has shifted from an independent style of filmed reportage to live pieces-to-camera from reporters who have little or nothing to say. In this article, I explore how this has come about; offer some views about the resulting negative impact on practitioners and the public; and explain why, in my opinion, our ‘right to know’ about warfare has been seriously eroded as a result. Caption: The technology has improved, but the risks do not go away. Freelancer John Martinkus, author of A Dirty Little War about East Timor, seen here on assignment for SBS Dateline in Kunar province, Afghanistan, in 2005, was kidnapped in Iraq—but he managed to escape. Others have not been so fortunate.

The Media and the Gulf War Reporting

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rune Ottosen
Keyword(s):  
Gulf War ◽  
The Media ◽  
War Reporting

scholarly journals Hidden Ties that Bind: The Psychological Bonds of Embedding Have Changed the Very Nature of War Reporting

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Sherry M. Wasilow
Keyword(s):  
Viable Option ◽  
Chess Game ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military ◽  
War Reporting

While embedded reporting has been allowed entry into the ongoing chess game between the military and the media, it is not apparent that the psychological nuances of its origins and impact on storytelling have been fully explored. Yet its adoption as a viable option in war reporting has led to a de facto division of journalistic framing. Embedding reporters with troops has led to a micro focus on soldiers and the minutiae of conflict, while traditional or unilateral reporting continues to provide contextual perspective on the purpose and impact of the fighting within a bigger picture. This essay argues that this division needs to be bridged.

scholarly journals A Discursive Analysis of the Gaza Conflict of 2008-09: Provocation and Proportionality in War Reporting

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nour Shreim
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
The Media ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
Israeli Army ◽  
War Reporting

 The paper employs an interpretative discourse analysis, to investigate the cultural ideas evoked linguistically throughout the coverage of the Gaza War of 2008-09 (Operation Cast Lead). It aims to provide a historical context to better understanding Operation Protective Edge. To allow for a comparative dimension, the paper develops two ‘frames’ of analysis that systematically look at two recurring themes and scrutinise their discursive strategies and functions in the construction of meaning and ideology. These include Provocation, which examines questions of responsibility and culpability; and Proportionality, which embraces matters of legitimacy and authority in relation to the humanitarian aspect of the war. The findings indicate that the actions of a protagonist may be deemed legitimate with regard to provocation, but illegitimate with regard to their proportionality. The peculiar circumstances of the war pushed the media in the direction of greater separation from the predominant ideologies ensued by the Israeli Army. It suggests that BBC World Service lack a coherent discursive strategy at the level of the lexical in their reporting of Gaza.  

Using the scanning electron microscope for failure analysis of high density magnetic media

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 392-393
Author(s):  
Evelyn R. Ackerman ◽  
Gary D. Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscope ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
High Density ◽  
Magnetic Media ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Operating Environments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scanning Electron

Advancements in state of the art high density Head/Disk retrieval systems has increased the demand for sophisticated failure analysis methods. From 1968 to 1974 the emphasis was on the number of tracks per inch. (TPI) ranging from 100 to 400 as summarized in Table 1. This emphasis shifted with the increase in densities to include the number of bits per inch (BPI). A bit is formed by magnetizing the Fe203 particles of the media in one direction and allowing magnetic heads to recognize specific data patterns. From 1977 to 1986 the tracks per inch increased from 470 to 1400 corresponding to an increase from 6300 to 10,800 bits per inch respectively. Due to the reduction in the bit and track sizes, build and operating environments of systems have become critical factors in media reliability.Using the Ferrofluid pattern developing technique, the scanning electron microscope can be a valuable diagnostic tool in the examination of failure sites on disks.

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