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Military media management : negotiating the 'front' line in mediatized war / Sarah Maltby.

Van Pelt Library P96.A752 G75 2012
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Maltby, Sarah.
Series:
Media, war and security
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Armed Forces and mass media--Great Britain.
Armed Forces and mass media.
War--Press coverage.
Armed Forces.
Great Britain--Armed Forces--Public relations.
Great Britain.
War--Press coverage--Great Britain.
War.
Physical Description:
vi, 132 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Summary:
This book argues that we are moving towards an increasingly Mediated War, where the practice of war is enacted through, involves, and is dependent upon media reportage, from the strategic and political justification of a war campaign to the tactical ways in which it is actually conducted.
Contents:
Introduction
The utility of Goffman
Researching the British military
Outline of the chapters
What is media operations
The aims of media operations
Media operations as influencing activity
Media operations as public relations
Media operations as responsive
Media operations: an interactionist perspective
Impression management and the institutional self
Shaping the environment: the military contribution
Audiences: imagining and influencing
Audience groups
Generating audience responses
Defining war: control moves
Linguistic, visual and narrative control moves
Strategies and techniques
Defining war: strategic interaction
Tacit definitions
Competing definitions
Performing war: bounded impression management
The information system
Bounded impression management
Performing war: distanciated impression management
Intended observed actions
Unavoidably observable actions
Heightened visibility: the military contribution
The uncovering perception of the media
Impression management and mediatized war:
Negotiating the "front" line
Mediatized war
Media logic, military logic
Strategic interaction
The active imagined audience
Impression management and mediatized wars.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780415580052
0415580056
9780203122853
0203122852
OCLC:
757935678

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