Selling War

'Clear and logical' -- International Journal of Communication, Congying Chen 'This book will be of particular relevance to researchers of European media, as well as being more than useful for anyone at postgraduate level or above interested in audience and reception studies in contemporary media environments.' -- Media International Australia, Damien Spry

Josef Seethaler is a senior scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Matthias Karmasin is chair of media and communication sciences at the University of Klagenfurt. Gabriele Melischek is a consultant to the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, where Romy Whlert is a researcher.

Preface: Perspectives on the Changing Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Confl icts Matthias Karmasin, Gabriele Melischek, Josef Seethaler, Romy Whlert Introduction: Delivering War to the Public: Shaping the Public Sphere Philip Seib PART I: Never Such Innocence Again: Propaganda and Total War War and the Public Sphere: European Examples from the Seven Years War to the World War I Reinhard Stauber Discourses of War Diego Lazzarich Between Indifference and News Hunger: Media Eff ects and the Public Sphere in Nazi Germany during Wartime Jurgen Wilke Perception of Newspapers and Magazines in Field Post Correspondence during the World War II Clemens Schwender PART II: Visual Turn, War PR and the Changing Relationships between Politics, Media and the Public Sphere Between Reporting and Propaganda: Power, Culture and War Reporting Daniel C. Hallin Just Wars and Persuasive Communication: Analyzing Public Relations in Military Conflicts Magnus-Sebastian Kutz An Iconography of Pity and a Rhetoric of Compassion: War and Humanitarian Crises in the Prism of American and French Newsmagazines (196795) Valrie Gorin Women, the Media and War: The Representation of Women in German Broadsheets between 1980 and 2000 Romy Frhlich Something Has Changed: International Relations and the Media after the Cold War Josef Seethaler and Gabriele Melischek Surging Beyond Realism: How the US Media Promote War Again and Again Robert M. Entman PART III: Globalization and the Postmodern War of Images The Coverage of Terrorism and the Iraq War in the Issue-Attention Cycle Stephan Russ-Mohl The Media and Humanitarian Intervention Philip Hammond Shifting Frames in a Deadlocked Conflict? News Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Nel Ruigrok, Wouter van Atteveldt and Janet Takens Public Discourse on the Georgian War in Russia and the EU: A Content Analysis of the Coverage in Traditional Print Media and Emerging Online Media Cordula Nitsch and Dennis Lichtenstein Limitations of Journalism in War Situations: A Case Study from Georgia Roman Hummel Mass-Mediated Debate about Torture in Post-9/11 America Brigitte L. Nacos