Theorising Media and Conflict

Philipp Budka is Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. He is the co-editor of Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance (Vienna University Press, 2019) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

“The present format does not allow me to do justice to all the contributions, but I can highly recommend the reader to take a closer look at [this volume that] brings new perspectives to the table and helps us move our attention from quantitative evaluations of the role of media in conflicts to the everyday media practices in conflict areas… The book is an ethnographic contribution to the study of media and conflict, adding qualitative research to a field where quantitative studies traditionally have dominated. It is easily accessible,and I believe that it is of relevance for students and researchers within the fields of media, communication and conflict. I hope that the volume finds the audience it deserves.” • Global Media Journal“This volume is a welcome addition to security and war studies, communication, journalism and social sciences at large. All students who wonder how to study conflict without coming under fire could highly benefit from this book.” • Media, War and Conflict

• PrefacePhilipp BudkaPART I: KEY DEBATESIntroduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Theorising Media and ConflictBirgit Bräuchler and Philipp BudkaChapter 1. Transforming Media and Conflict ResearchNicole StremlauPART II: WITNESSING CONFLICTChapter 2 Just a ‘Stupid Reflex’? Digital Witnessing of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Mediation of ConflictJohanna Sumiala, Minttu Tikka and Katja ValaskiviChapter 3. The Ambivalent Aesthetics and Perception of Mobile Phone Videos: A (De-)Escalating Factor for the Syrian ConflictMareike MeisPART III: EXPERIENCING CONFLICTChapter 4. Banal Phenomenologies of Conflict: Professional Media Cultures and Audiences of Distant SufferingTim MarkhamChapter 5. Learning to Listen: Theorising the Sounds of Contemporary Media and ConflictMatthew SumeraPART IV: MEDIATED CONFLICT LANGUAGEChapter 6. Trolling and the Orders and Disorders of Communication in ‘(Dis)Information Society’Jonathan Paul MarshallChapter 7. ‘Your Rockets Are Late. Do We Get a Free Pizza?’: Israeli-Palestinian Twitter Dialogues and Boundary Maintenance in the 2014 Gaza WarOren LivioPART V: SITES OF CONFLICTChpapter 8. What Violent Conflict Tells Us about Media and Place-Making (and Vice Versa): Ethnographic Observations from a Revolutionary UprisingNina Grønlykke MollerupChapter 9. An Ayuujk ‘Media War’ over Water and Land: Mediatised Senses of Belonging between Mexico and the United StatesIngrid KummelsPART VI: CONFLICT ACROSS BORDERSChapter 10. Transnationalising the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Media Rituals and Diaspora Activism between California and the South CaucasusRik AdriaansChapter 11. Stones Thrown Online: The Politics of Insults, Distance and Impunity in Congolese PolémiqueKatrien PypePART VII: AFTER CONFLICTChapter 12. Mending the Wounds of War: A Framework for the Analysis of the Representation of Conflict-Related Trauma and Reconciliation in CinemaLennart Soberon, Kevin Smets and Daniel BiltereystChapter 13. Going off the Record? On the Relationship between Media and the Formation of National Identity in Post-Genocide RwandaSilke OldenburgChapter 14. From War to Peace in Indonesia: Transforming Media and SocietyBirgit BräuchlerAfterwordJohn PostillIndex