Table of Contents
Acknowledgements x
List of Tables and Figures xi
1 Introduction 1
1 Diffused War 3
2 The Two Phases of Mediatization 15
3 Conclusion 18
2 Images 20
1 Introduction: Do Images of War Show or Hide? 20
2 Photograph and Flux 23
3 Mediality 26
4 Emergence 30
5 Saddam Hussein's Execution 32
6 Conclusion 35
3 Compassion 37
1 Introduction: What is Compassion Fatigue? 37
2 Why News Values Keep Some Stories Off the Radar 39
3 Exploring Spectator-Sufferer Relations 44
4 How Do Media Enable or Restrict Compassion? 53
5 Conclusion 59
4 Witness 61
1 Introduction 61
2 Representation and the Truth of War 63
3 Witnessing 69
4 Conclusion 85
5 Genocide 86
1 Introduction 86
2 Premediation and the Holocaust 89
3 Media Templates 91
4 The Trnopolje Camp Images 94
5 Towards an Ethics of Images 97
6 Emergence 102
6 Memory 104
1 The Diffusion of Media and Memory 104
2 The Second Memory Boom 106
3 Media and Holocaust Memory 108
4 From Witness to Embodied Memories 112
5 The Third Memory Boom 116
7 Vectors 120
1 Vectors and Globalization 122
2 Controlling Vectors 126
3 Emergent Vectors 136
4 Conclusion 143
8 Radicalization 145
1 The Mediatization of Radicalization 147
2 Diffuse Relations Between Cause and Effect 150
3 Uncertainty for Policymakers and Journalists Enables 'Hypersecurity' to Emerge 155
4 Conclusion 160
9 Legitimacy 162
1 Introduction: Legitimacy, Representation, Discourse 162
2 The Power of Representations 164
3 Diffuse War Axes of Representation 169
4 Translation and Legitimacy 179
5 Conclusion 183
10 Methods 185
1 Identifying Effects amid Ubiquitous Media 186
2 How Do We Analyse Media Practices? 188
3 How Do We Analyse Discursive Linking? Nexus Analysis 189
4 Conclusion 191
Notes 193
References 198
Further Reading 217
Name Index 218
Subject Index 223
