Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in adigital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative waysfor journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while, at the sametime, creating opportunities for propaganda, censorship andcontrol. Topics discussed include:
* How is the role of the war reporter evolving as digitaltechnologies become ever more prominent?
* What is the rhetoric of war in digital journalism? How does anemphasis on liveness, immediacy or realness shape publicperceptions of the nature of warfare itself?
* Is technology widening the gap between 'us' and 'them', or arenew kinds of empathy being established with distant others as time,space and place are effectively compressed?
A key focus is journalists' use of digital imagery, real-timevideo and audio reports, multimedia databases - as well assatellites, broadband, podcasting, and mobile telephones - inthe reporting of a range of wars, conflicts and crises. Theexamples analysed range from 24-hour television news coverage ofthe Persian Gulf War, the first 'internet war' in Kosovo, digitalphotography, from September 11 to Abu Ghraib, and bloggers in Iraq,including journalists, soldiers and ordinary citizens.
Digital War Reporting is required reading for students,researchers and journalists.