Call for papers

Media, War & Conflict Fifth Anniversary Conference

11-12 April 2013

Royal Holloway, University of London

250 word abstracts to Lisa.Dacunha@rhul.ac.uk by 10 October 2012

Media, War & Conflict’s fifth anniversary conference will be held on 11-12 April 2013 at Royal Holloway, University of London. The conference is open to scholars, journalists, military practitioners and activists from around the world.

Keynote speakers:

Jamie Shea, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Cees Hamelink, Emeritus Professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam and Emeritus Professor for Media, Religion and Culture at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

The journal was first published in April 2008, bringing together international scholars and journalists from the fields of political science, history, and communication, and military, NGO and journalist practitioners. The aim was to map the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an increasingly mediated age, and to explore cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices and digital media, and their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of warfare. The fifth anniversary conference offers the chance to showcase the best research in this field while also taking stock of how the field has developed and identifying the emerging challenges we face.

We invite papers on a range of topics, including:

Contemporary and historical war reporting
Changing forms of credibility, legitimacy and authority
Media ethics in the coverage of conflict
The role of citizen-users and social media in conflict
Terrorism, media and publics
Intelligence operations and media
Digital and cyber warfare
Media and conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict scenarios
Photo and video journalism in wartime
War and conflict in popular culture
The power of the visual and other modalities
Commemoration and memorialisation of war and conflict

The deadline for abstracts is 10 October 2012. Please submit 250-word abstracts and author-affiliation details to Lisa.Dacunha@rhul.ac.uk.