Media Power and The Transformation of War

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 1-4

3. Media Power: A Radical View

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 5-46

4. Power over the Agenda

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 47-79

5. Power over the Process

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 80-98

6. Power over the Channel

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 99-125

7. Power over the Instruments

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 126-162

8. Conclusions

   • Chiara de Franco

   Pages 163-184

9. Back Matter

   Pages 185-220

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Do the news media have any role in the transformation of war and warfare? Focusing on television, this book argues that the news media alters the cognitive and strategic environment of the actors of war and politics and therefore changes the way these interact with one another.

• media
• Medium
• politics
• television
• transformation
• war
• media research

"Social media has become a trending arena for citizen journalists and civil society groups. This book is quite fascinating in how De Franco builds on the works of founding scholars, such as Marshall McLuhan, Erving Goffman, and Joshua Meyrowitz. An intriguing part of the book is the author's interest in the works of McLuhan, drawing attention to the World Wide Web and the global village concept. Media Power shows the potential in applying the four-dimensional definition of power to the Internet and social media platforms together with the semiotic method used in analyzing television media. It may be productive to see how the framework fits into new media platforms. The book will be useful to journalists, students, academics, and individuals interested in history, foreign policy, political science, international relations, mass communication, and war and conflict studies."

- International Journal of Communication

"Media Power is a thorough qualitative study, which presents a compelling case for the use of a four-dimensional definition of media power in relation to the agenda, the process, the channel and the instruments an approach which also holds the potential

to be applied to new and emerging media platforms." - Media, Culture and Society

• King’s College London, UK

  Chiara Franco

CHIARA DE FRANCO is Deputy Director of the Foresight Research Group and co-founder of the #global_mediatisation initiative in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, UK. She is also coordinator of the Task Force for the improvement of EU's capabilities for mass atrocities prevention. She has published on international political communication and conflict prevention.

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