Description
Book SynopsisDigital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while, at the same time, creating opportunities for propaganda, censorship and control.
Trade Review"This is an incisive and often gripping study of how digital media transform coverage of conflict. For those who study the evolving relationship between war and journalism,
Digital War Reporting is essential reading."
Philip Seib, University of Southern California "If satellite television muddied the wartime distinction between 'us' and 'them,' newer digital technologies make it even more problematic. Matheson and Allan deftly critique these developments, revealing the moral and political dimensions of war reporting transmitted through these new forms of personal, social and journalistic expression."
Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas
Table of Contents1 New Wars, New Reporting 1
2 The ‘First Internet War’ 28
3 Conflicted Realities 58
4 The Citizen Journalist at War 92
5 Visual Truths: Images in Wartime 130
6 Making Connections: The Politics of Mediation 166
References 188
Index 206
