Routlege Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security

This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies.

The academic sub-field of media and conflict has developed and expanded greatly over the past two decades. Operating across a diverse range of academic disciplines, academics are studying the impact the media has on governments pursuing war, responses to humanitarian crises and violent political struggles, and the role of the media as a facilitator of, and a threat to, both peace building and conflict prevention. This handbook seeks to consolidate existing knowledge by linking the body of conflict and media studies with work in security studies.

The handbook is arranged into five parts:

• Theory and Principles.
• Media, the State and War
• Media and Human Security
• Media and Policymaking within the Security State
• New Issues in Security and Conflict and Future Directions

For scholars of security studies, this handbook will provide a key point of reference for state of the art scholarship concerning the media-security nexus; for scholars of communication and media studies, the handbook will provide a comprehensive mapping of the media-conflict field.

Piers Robinson is Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Manchester. His?books include Pockets of Resistance: The British Media and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (2010), and The CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention (Routledge, 2002).?He has served as an editor of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge) and currently sits on the editorial board of Critical Studies on Terrorism and Media, War and Conflict.

Philip Seib is Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, and is director of USC’s Center on Public Diplomacy. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of Conflict; Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War; New Media and the New Middle East; The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics; Toward A New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy; War and Conflict Communication, and Global Terrorism and New Media: The Post-Al Qaeda Generation. Published in 2012 are Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World and Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era. He is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy, and co-editor of the journal Media, War, and Conflict.

Romy Frohlich is Professor of Communication Science and Media Research at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (specializations: quant./qual. content analysis, gender studies, PR). She was Visiting Scholar at Ohio State University, University of Newcastle (AU), University of Melbourne (AU). She is Co-PI of the first and only longitudinal content analysis of German ‘media coverage on war, security, and defense policy’ (cf. "Coverage of war, (…): Do Women matter?", EJC, 2010). Since the mid-90s she regularly conducts research projects on "Gender, Media, and Violence". She is member of the (Associate/Advisory/Review) Editorial Boards of ‘Feminist Media Studies’, ‘Communication, Culture & Critique’, ‘Journalism & Mass Communication Editor’, ‘Studies in Communication Sciences’, and co-edited "Women journalists in the Western world" (Hampton).