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The Politics of War Reporting: A Critical Symposium Date: (Fri) 2 November 2012 from 18:00 to 21:00 Venue: Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0PD The Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice are marking the launch of Dr Tim Markham’s new book The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality (Manchester University Press) with a unique critical symposium. An interdisciplinary panel will offer critical observations on the book, followed by responses from Dr Markham, and finally a wider discussion and debate involving all attendees. The symposium will end with an informal reception. Confirmed panellists include: Professor Stuart Allan (The Media School, Bournemouth University); Professor Diana Coole (Department of Politics, Birkbeck); and Professor Phil Hammond (Centre for Media & Culture Research, London South Bank University). The symposium will be chaired by Dr Scott Rodgers (Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck). This event is free and open to all, but places are limited – attendees must register their place at http://markhambooksymposium.eventbrite.com/. Please direct any queries to Scott Rodgers at [log in to unmask] About the The Politics of War Reporting (from MUP website) The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. Is journalistic authority really only about doing the job well? Do the ethics of war reporting emerge simply from the ‘stuff’ of journalism? This book asks why it is that the authoritative reporter increasingly needs to appear authentic, and that success depends not only on getting things right but being the right sort of journalist. This, in turn, depends on the uncalculating mastery of practices both before and during a journalist’s career. This book includes interviews with war correspondents and others with an active stake in the field and combines them with the critical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to construct a political phenomenology of war reporting – the power relations and unspoken ‘rules of the game’ underpinning the representation of conflict and suffering by the media. It considers the recent phenomena of pooling and embedding journalists as well as the impact of new technologies, and asks what changes in the journalistic area can tell us about authority, authenticity and morality in the cultural industries more broadly. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Politics of War Reporting will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of media and cultural studies, sociology and political theory. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------