War and the media : essays on news reporting, propaganda and popular culture / edited by Paul M. Haridakis, Barbara S. Hugenberg and Stanley T. Wearden
Published
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2009]
Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Images in Popular Culture; Protest Music as Alternative Media During the Vietnam War Era; Created Heroes, Humanized Solders, and Superior Western Values; Ghosts of Vietnam; Drawn-Out Battles; Part II: Institutional Propaganda Messages; Economic Convergence and the Celebration of Mass Production; ""You Boys and Girls Can Be the Minute Men of Today""; Inspecting the Rhetorical Arsenal; An Enduring Legacy of World War I; Part III: Effects of News Coverage; Coverage of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars in Business Magazines
""New Mexico's Always Been Patriotic and Loyal to the Country""Embedded Reporting and Audience Response; Prince Harry and the Afghanistan Media Blackout; Part IV: Future; Cyberwar; About the Contributors; Index
Summary
Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the consumers of those images. But this book looks beyond the obvious. The contributors examine historical and contemporary examples that reflect the role of the media or mass communication or both during wartime. The essays highlight the centrality of communication to the perpetuation and to the resolution of war, suggesting that the symbiotic relationship between communication and war is as important to understand as war itself
