Soft power in its current, widely understood form has become a straitjacket for those trying to understand power and communication in international affairs. Analyses of soft power overwhelmingly focus on soft power ‘assets’ or capabilities and how to wield them, not how influence does or does not take place. It has become a catch-all term…
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Media War & Conflict is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Media War & Conflict, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Media Studies and Communication Social Media and Politics Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence Public Relations and Crisis Communication Global Security and Public Health |
| ISSN | 1750-6352 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.31 |
| h-index | 42 |
| i10-index | 209 |
| Total citations | 7,492 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Southern California |
| Journal website | mwc.sagepub.com |
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Most-cited papers in Media War & Conflict
This article develops a model of visual framing analysis through an examination of the photographic representation of the 2006 Israel—Lebanon conflict. The intentions of this investigation are twofold: first, to compare and contrast the use of press photographs in two ‘quality’ British newspapers — The Times and The Guardian; second, to develop and test a…
Much of the scholarly attention surrounding the media’s treatment of the so-called ‘war on terror’ has focused on its uncritical replication of the Bush administration’s rhetorical framing of the conflict, in which the September 11 attacks were seen as acts of war initiating a retaliatory war on terror. While this dominant, martial framing is now…
In its search for media influences in violent conflict, most existing scholarship has investigated the coverage of specific, salient conflict events. Media have been shown to focus on violence, sidelining concerns of reconciliation and disengaging rapidly as time proceeds. Studies have documented ethnocentric bias and self-reinforcing media hypes, which have been linked to escalation and…
Today’s media ecology and communication flows circumscribe the globe, extending beyond and intensifying earlier spatial–temporal communication trends. New and old media increasingly enter into disasters shaping them from the inside out, and outside in, reconfiguring disaster social relations, channelling forms of political control and projects for change, and circulating deep-seated cultural views and sentiments. Approached…