Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books

• Carruthers, Susan L. (2011) The Media at War. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Articles available in compendium

• Archetti, C. (2015) "Terrorism, Communication and the Media," in C. Kennedy-Pipe, G. Clubb and S. Mabon (eds) Terrorism and Political Violence (London: Sage), pp. 134-152. 18 pages
• Bennett, D. (2013) Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC Coverage of War and Terrorism (Oxon: Routledge), introduction (“The Impact of Blogging on the BBC’s  Coverage of War and Terrorism”). 12 pages
• Cottle, S. (2006) Mediatized Conflict (Maidenhead: Open University Press), Chapter 1 “Mediatized Conflict in the World Today”; Chapter 2 “Getting a Fix on Mediatized Conflict: Paradigms and Perspectives.” 32 pages
• Freedman, L. (2006) The Transformation of Strategic Affairs, Adelphi Paper 379 (London: IISS), Chapter 1 “Networks, Culture and Narratives”; Chapter 2 “The Transformation of Grand Strategy”; Chapter 5 “Strategic Communications”.  57 pages
• Hoskins, A. (2004) Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (London: Continuum), especially Chapter 1 “Conflicts of Memory in a Media Age.” 12 pages
• Hoskins, A. and B. O’ Loughlin (2010) War and Media: The Emergence of Diffused War (Cambridge: Polity Press), Chapter 1. 18 pages
• Lewis, J., R. Brookes, N. Mosdell, T. Threadgold (2006) Shoot First and Ask Questions Later (Oxford: Peter Lang), Chapter 2 “The Background to Embedding.” 21 pages
• Nacos, B. (2002) Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism (New York: Rowman & Littlefield), Chapter 1 “Mass-Mediated Terrorism in the New World (Dis)Order”. 29 pages
• Paletz, D.L. and A. P. Schmid (eds.) (1992) Terrorism and the Media: How Researchers, Terrorists, Government, Press, Public, Victims View and Use the Media (Newbury Park, CA: Sage), Chapter 2 “Researchers’ Perspectives”. 22 pages
• Stahl, R. (2009) Militainment Inc.: War, Media and Popular Culture (Oxon: Routledge), especially Introduction (“Step Right Up!”) and Chapter 1(“All Consuming War: From Spectacle to Interactivity). 47 pages
• Strobel, W. P. (1997) Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations (Washington, DC: USIP), especially Chapter 2 “Driving Fast Without a Road Map: The News Media and foreign Policy Today”. 34 pages
• Taylor, P.M. (1993) War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War (Manchester: Manchester University Press), “Introduction: Image and Reality in the Gulf War.” 30 pages
• Taylor, P. (1997) Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media since 1945 (London: Routledge), Chapter 3 “Illusions of Reality: The Media and the Reporting of Warfare”; and Chapter 4 “Mind Games: Information Warfare and Psychological Operations”. 80 pages
• Taylor, P.M. (1995) Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day (Manchester: Manchester University Press), “Introduction: Looking Through a Glass Onion.” 16 pages

Further recommended reading

• Archetti, C. (2015) “"Terrorism, Communication and New Media: Explaining Radicalization in the Digital Age," Perspectives on Terrorism 9(1): 49-59, http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/401/794 10 pages
• Bell, M. (2008) “The Death of News”, Media War and Conflict 1(2): 221-231, http://mwc.sagepub.com/content/1/2/221.full.pdf+html 10 pages
• Clerwall, C. 2014. “Enter the Robot Journalist: Users’ Perceptions of Automated Content,” Journalism 8 (5): 519–531, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17512786.2014.883116 22 pages
• Gilboa, E. (2005) “Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the CNN Effect”, International Studies Perspectives 6(3): 325-341, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-3577.2005.00211.x/epdf 16 pages
• Hallin, D. C. (1984) “The Media, the War in Vietnam, and Political Support: A Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media”, The Journal of Politics 46(1): 2-24, “The Media, the War in Vietnam, and Political Support: A Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media”, The Journal of Politics, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2130432.pdf 22 pages
• Robinson, P. (2002) “The CNN Effect: Can the News Media Drive Foreign Policy?”, Review of International Studies 25(2): 301-309, “The CNN Effect: Can the New Media Drive Foreign Policy?”, Review of International Studies, https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/82861CF3D16F66F2BB51A8591E6470EF/S0260210599003010a.pdf/the-cnn-effect-can-the-news-media-drive-foreign-policy.pdf 8 pages
• Sauer, F. and N. Schoernig (2012) “Killer Drones: The 'Silver Bullet' of Democratic Warfare?” Security Dialogue 43(4): 363-380, http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/43/4/363.full.pdf+html 23 pages
• Singer, P. W. (2009) “Robots at War: The New Battlefield,” Wilson Quarterly 33(1): 30-48, http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/robots-war-new-battlefield 18 pages
• van Dalen, A. (2012) “The Algorithms Behind the Headlines: How Machine-Written News Redefines the Core Skills of Human Journalists,” Journalism Practice 6(5-6): 648-658, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2012.667268?needAccess=true#aHR0cDovL3d3dy50YW5kZm9ubGluZS5jb20vZG9pL3BkZi8xMC4xMDgwLzE3NTEyNzg2LjIwMTIuNjY3MjY4P25lZWRBY2Nlc3M9dHJ1ZUBAQDA= 10 pages