Jordan Crandall (ed.): Under Fire 1 & 2. The Organization and Representation of Violence (2005)

Through a series of discussions about an array of issues–battle simulation techniques and news programming, democracy and violence, the privatization of the military, and militarized bodies–Jordan Crandall explores the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict. Moderated by Crandall, Under Fire 1 is a compilation of a series of dialogues that occurred online from January 25 through April 19, 2004 between artists, political scientists, critics, activists, and journalists around the central theme.

Publisher Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2005
ISBN 90-73362-61-X
Length 96 pages

Under Fire 2 is the second collection edited by Jordan Crandall in an ongoing project that explores the organization and representation of armed conflict. Emerging from online dialogues among a group of artists, theorists, scientists, critics, activists, and journalists during three months of 2004 and reorganized thematically, the discussions in Under Fire 2 aim to offer new insights into symptomatic violence. The book covers issues such as the privatization of the military and the contributions of commercial and independent news media, as well as representations from artistic, literary, and popular entertainment sources, to our cultural perception of conflict. Rather than relying on discourses based on Western conceptions of modernity, the project is dedicated to opening up new historical perspectives, exploring the potential of Islamist points of view as sources of critical and political debate.

Publisher Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2005
ISBN 9073362652, 9789073362659
Length 112 pages

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Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd (eds.): Finding the Right Place on the Map: Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective (2008)

“Finding the Right Place on the Map is a crosscutting, international comparison of the media systems and the democratic performance of the media in post-Communist countries. It explores issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism in a comparative East-West perspective.

Each chapter considers a different aspect of the trends and problems surrounding the media in comparative European and global perspectives. The result is a creative collaboration of leading authors from East and West that covers a rich array of controversial subjects in a comprehensive manner. Topics range from the civil society approach to media and public service broadcasting to journalism cultures, fandom, representation of poverty and gender that reinforces social exclusion and legitimizes consumer capitalism.

Finding the Right Place on the Map is a unique, up-to-date overview of what media transformation has meant for post-communist countries in nearly two decades.”

Publisher Intellect Books, 2008
ISBN 184150193X, 9781841501932
301 pages

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Media Reform: Democratizing the Media, Democratizing the State (2002)

Media Reform examines a complex process: the reform of media and its role promoting democratic practices. Using examples of media from a range of countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, Media Reform considers the social and cultural implications of a free and independent media.

Editors Monroe Edwin Price, Beata Rozumilowicz, Stefaan G. Verhulst
Publisher Routledge, 2002
ISBN 041524353X, 9780415243537
Length 283 pages

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Uzbekistan, mass media, Uruguay, Ukraine, demonopolization, JRTV, Montevideo, Ukrainian, Dziennik Ustaw, Sfor, Kampala, media in Poland, Dayton Accords, TVRI, Uzbek, Tashkent, journalists, Suharto, Al-Arab al-Yawm, Jakarta

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