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WEEK SIX, Mar. 4-8 th TOPIC: From Entrenched Conflict to Media Spectacle: the Middle East, Northern Ireland and the First Gulf War LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will discuss, and how the media subsequently covered the entrenched conflicts in the Middle East and the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and explore how this changed with the 24/7 reporting of the First Gulf War REQUIRED READINGS: 1.) Greg Philo & GMG, ‘The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: TV News and Public Understanding’ Chapter 9 (pp. 133-148) in Thussu, Dayan Kishan & Freedman, Des, Eds., War and the Media (London: Sage, 2003) [SL / Online (LR)] 2.) Cooke, Tim, ‘Paramilitaries and the Press’ Chapter 5 (pp. 75-90) in Norris, Pippa; Kern, Montague; & Just, Marion, Eds., Framing Terrorism: The News Media, The Government and the Public (London: Routledge, 2003). [SL & Online (LR)] 3.) Douglas Kellner, ‘The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited’ Chapter 7 (pp. 136-54) in Allen, Stuart & Zelizer, Barbie, Eds., Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (London: Routledge, 2004) [SL] also available online at http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/gulfwarrevisited.htm WEEK SEVEN, Mar. 11 th – 15 th TOPIC: Causality and Reporting War in the Balkans LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will analyse two recent conceptual approaches to the media and war: the CNN Effect and Compassion Fatigue; they will apply both to media representations of the Balkan Conflict REQUIRED READINGS: 1.) Robinson, Piers, ‘The CNN Effect: Can the News Media Drive Foreign Policy’?, Review of International Studies, 25(2): 301-09 [EJ] 2.) Carruthers, Susan, ‘Other People’s Wars: Interventions in Real Time’, Chapter 4 The Media at War, 2 nd ed. (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2011) [SL & Online (R)] WEEK EIGHT, Mar. 18 th – 22 nd TOPIC: Media Constructions of Africa & Forgotten Wars LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will examine how Western media outlets have constructed conflict in Africa, and analyse the different ways that the media forgets about both long-standing conflicts and ‘small wars’ REQUIRED READINGS: 1.) Carruthers, Susan L. ‘Tribalism and Tribulation: Media Constructions of ‘African Savagery’ and ‘Western Humanitarianism’ in the 1990s’ Chapter 8 (pp. 155-173) in Allen, Stuart & Zelizer, Barbie, Eds., Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (London: Routledge, 2004) [SL / Online (R)] 2.) Berstein, Noah, ‘A Media Eclipse: Israel-Palestine and the World’s Forgotten Conflicts’, OpenDemocracy, 18 th March 2010, available at http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/noah-bernstein/media-eclipse-israelpalestine-and-worlds-forgotten-conflicts and [Online link] PAI1005 Media, Politics 7 Conflict (2012-13) 12
PLEASE NOTE: Media Essay DEADLINE is Wednesday, 20 th March at 12 noon EASTER BREAK, 25 th Mar. – 12 th Apr. NO LECTURES OR TUTORIALS WEEK NINE, Mar. 15 th – 19 th TOPIC: 9/11, Iraq & Afghanistan LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will discuss the media’s representations of the events of 9/11 through the concept of media spectacle, and debate the role of the media in the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan, especially in regards to embedded journalism REQUIRED READINGS: 1.) Kellner, Douglas, ‘9/11, Spectacles of Terror and Media Manipulation’, Critical Discourse Studies, 1(1): 41-64 [EJ] 2.) Carruthers, Susan L. ‘War in the Digital Age: Afghanistan and Iraq’, Chapter 6 (pp. 209- 265) in The Media at War (Houndmills: Palgrave 2011) [SL / Online (R)] WEEK TEN, Apr. 22 nd – 26 th TOPIC: The Arab Spring & New Media Technologies LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will discuss new technologies, the internet, embedded journalism and social media to discuss the changing relationship between the media and war, with specific reference to the Arab Spring & recent global conflicts REQUIRED READINGS: 1.) Alterman, Jon B. ‘The Revolution will not be Tweeted’, The Washington Quarterly, 34(4), 2011: 103-16 [Online (R)] 2.) Allen, Stuart, ‘Citizen Journalism and the rise of Mass Self Communication: Reporting the London Bombings’Global Media Journal,1(1), 2007: 1-20 [Online (R)] WEEK ELEVEN, Apr. 29 th – May 3 rd TOPIC: The Ethics of Reporting Conflict LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will explore the reporting of war from the journalist’s perspective, and analyse some of the dominant guidelines governing journalists in conflict situations REQUIRED READINGS: 1.) Tumber, Howard, ‘Prisoners of News Values? Journalists, professionalism and identification in times of war’ Chapter 10 (pp. 190-205) in Allen, Stuart & Zelizer, Barbie, Eds., Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (London: Routledge, 2004) [SL & Online (R)] 2.) BBC, ‘Section 11: War, Terror & Emergencies’, BBC Editorial Guidelines, BBC Online 2013 (available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/editorialguidelines/page/guidelines-warpractices-accuracy/) [Online link & Online (R)] PAI1005 Media, Politics 7 Conflict (2012-13) 13
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