Handbook

The media reporting of war plays a pivotal role in how war today is waged and understood. This course examines the history of this relationship between war and the media alongside various theories and practices of the communication of war from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The course will consist of selected theoretical readings that focus on various elements of the media reportage of war and its media forms, including the role of the journalist, the witness, propaganda, memory, truth, images, film and humanitarianism.