Preface: Perspectives on the Changing Role of the Mass Media in
Hostile Confl icts – Matthias Karmasin, Gabriele Melischek, Josef
Seethaler, Romy Wöhlert
Introduction: Delivering War to the Public: Shaping the Public
Sphere – Philip Seib
PART I: ‘Never Such Innocence Again’: Propaganda and Total War
War and the Public Sphere: European Examples from the Seven Years’
War to the World War I – Reinhard Stauber
Discourses of War – Diego Lazzarich
Between Indifference and News Hunger: Media Eff ects and the Public
Sphere in Nazi Germany during Wartime – Jürgen Wilke
Perception of Newspapers and Magazines in Field Post Correspondence
during the World War II – Clemens Schwender
PART II: Visual Turn, War PR and the Changing Relationships between
Politics, Media and the Public Sphere
Between Reporting and Propaganda: Power, Culture and War Reporting
– Daniel C. Hallin
Just Wars and Persuasive Communication: Analyzing Public Relations
in Military Conflicts – Magnus-Sebastian Kutz
An Iconography of Pity and a Rhetoric of Compassion: War and
Humanitarian Crises in the Prism of American and French
Newsmagazines (1967–95) – Valérie Gorin
Women, the Media and War: The Representation of Women in German
Broadsheets between 1980 and 2000 – Romy Fröhlich
‘Something Has Changed’: International Relations and the Media
after the ‘Cold War’ – Josef Seethaler and Gabriele Melischek
Surging Beyond Realism: How the US Media Promote War Again and
Again – Robert M. Entman
PART III: Globalization and the ‘Postmodern’ War of Images
The Coverage of Terrorism and the Iraq War in the ‘Issue-Attention
Cycle’ – Stephan Russ-Mohl
The Media and Humanitarian Intervention – Philip Hammond
Shifting Frames in a Deadlocked Conflict? News Coverage of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Nel Ruigrok, Wouter van Atteveldt
and Janet Takens
Public Discourse on the Georgian War in Russia and the EU: A
Content Analysis of the Coverage in Traditional Print Media and
Emerging Online Media – Cordula Nitsch and Dennis Lichtenstein
Limitations of Journalism in War Situations: A Case Study from
Georgia – Roman Hummel
Mass-Mediated Debate about Torture in Post-9/11 America –
Brigitte L. Nacos
Josef Seethaler is a senior scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Matthias Karmasin is chair for media and communication sciences at the University of Klagenfurt. Gabriele Melischek is a consultant to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Romy Wohlert is a post-doc researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
'Clear and logical'
*International Journal of Communication, Congying Chen*
'This book will be of particular relevance to researchers of
European media, as well as being more than useful for anyone at
postgraduate level or above interested in audience and reception
studies in contemporary media environments.'
*Media International Australia, Damien Spry*
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