War, Media, and Propaganda

A Global Perspective

Yahya R. Kamalipour, Nancy Snow

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2004
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461646846
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They examine the processes behind media coverage of war, sophisticated propaganda techniques, the dynamics of public opinion, and the effects on human affairs and communication. As the book moves through theoretical discussions to regional and national views, it explores cultural-political implications for the United States and other countries around the world, concluding with recommendations and solutions to key problems of media globalization.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 - Information Dominance: The Philosophy of Total Propaganda Control?
• 2 - From Bombs and Bullets to Hearts and Minds: U.S. Public Diplomacy in an Age of Propaganda
• 3 - Selling the Iraq War: The Media Management Strategies We Never Saw
• 4 - Measuring Success: Profit and Propaganda
• 5 - Spinning War and Blotting Out Memory
• 6 - Weapons of Mass Distraction: World Security and Personal Politics
• 7 - Spectacle and Media Propaganda in the War on Iraq: A Critique of U.S. Broadcasting Networks
• 8 - War as Promotional “Photo Op”: The New York Times’s Visual Coverage of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
• 9 - Murdoch’s War—A Transnational Perspective
• 10 - Glossy: American Hegemony and the Culture of Death
• 11 - War, Propaganda, and Islam in Muslim and Western Sources
• 12 - Enemy Image: A Case Study in Creating a Mata Hari
• 13 - Anatomy of a Bonding: An Embedded Reporter’s Account of the Bonding Process with the Soldiers
• 14 - The War on Iraq: A Reporter’s Observations
• 15 - America: The Fourth Reich
• 16 - War on Iraq and Media Coverage: A Middle Eastern Perspective
• 17 - Iranians and Media Coverage of the War in Iraq: Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Contradiction
• 18 - South Africa and Iraq: The Battle for Media Reality
• 19 - The Chinese Watching the Iraqi War with Shock and Awe—As a Spectacular Game
• 20 - The Self-Absorbed Bully: A Brazilian View of the United States at War
• 21 - Threat or Ally? U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Middle East Conflict
• 22 - From Propaganda to Public Diplomacy in the Information Age
• 23 - Can We Make Them Love Us? Public Diplomacy after 9/11
• 24 - War, Media, and Propaganda: An Epilogue
• Suggested Readings
• Index
• About the Contributors