1st Edition

Military Media Management Negotiating the 'Front' Line in Mediatized War

By Sarah Maltby Copyright 2012
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations. War is a complex phenomenon which raises numerous questions about the organization of society that continue to challenge all those involved in its study. Increasingly, this includes the need to engage theoretically and... Read more

1. Introduction  2. What is Media Operations?  3. The Aim of Media Operations  4. Media Operations: An Interactionist Perspective  5. Audiences: Imagining and Influencing  6. Defining War: Control Moves  7. Defining War: Strategic Interaction  8. Performing War: Bounded Impression Management  9. Performing War: Distanciated Impression Management  10. Impression Management and Mediatized War: Negotiating the 'Front' Line

Biography

Sarah Maltby is a lecturer in sociology and media. She is the founder of the War and Media Network and co-editor of Communicating War: Memory, Military and Media (Arima Publishing, 2007). Her research centres on military information management and representations of conflict in military and journalistic output.