The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the subject. As serious research flourishes as never before, this new two-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series has been assembled by the field’s leading thinker to meet the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of cross-disciplinary literature.

Drawing on disparate, and sometimes less accessible, sources, the two volumes gather together canonical and the very best cutting-edge scholarship to cover a diverse range of key themes, including: the theory and reality of journalistic practice; the effects of conflict communication on the policy process; and the impact of technology on the very nature of war and conflict.

The collection also includes a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. War and Conflict Communication is an essential work of reference and will be welcomed as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Contents

Volume I

Part 1: Theories and Principles

1. Rosemarie I. Dinklage and Robert C. Ziller, ‘Explicating Cognitive Conflict through Photo-Communication: The Meaning of War and Peace in Germany and the United States’, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1989, 33, 2, 309–17.

2. William A. Gamson and David Stuart, ‘Media Discourse as a Symbolic Contest: The Bomb in Political Cartoons’, Sociological Forum, 1992, 7, 1, 55–86.

3. P. A. Chilton, ‘The Role of Language in Human Conflict: Prolegomena to the Investigation of Language as a Factnflict Causation and Resolution’, Current Issues in Language and Society, 1997, 4, 3, 174–89.

4. Richard Ned Lebow, ‘Thucydides the Constructivist’, American Political Science Review, 2001, 95, 3, 547–60.

5. R. M. Entman, ‘Cascading Activation: Contesting the White House’s Frame After 9/11’, Political Communication, 2003, 20, 4, 415–32.

6. Eytan Gilboa, ‘The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations’, Political Communication, 2005, 22, 27–44.

7. Vladimir Bratic, ‘Media Effects During Violent Conflict: Evaluating Media Contributions to Peace Building’, Conflict and Communication Online, 2006, 5, 1, 1–11.

8. Joseph S. Nye, Jr, ‘Public Diplomacy and Soft Power’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2008, 616, 94–109.

Part 2: Influencing Public Opinion

9. O. W. Riegel, ‘Propaganda and ...