This article probes the cultural meaning of contemporary meme genres that are based on
photographs. The analysis looks into the broad dimensions of truth and temporality, as …

Digital witnessing, our engagement with death through local participants' own recordings of
the conflict zone, introduces a new kind of death spectacle in the West: mediatized death …

This article presents a general framework for deconstructing and classifying conflict news
narratives. This framework, based on a nuanced and contextual approach to analyzing …

This article examines the framing of the Ukraine crisis in German and Russian television
political talk shows. Informed by peace journalism and constructive journalism, it …

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 …

The crisis in Ukraine was one of the dominant topics in international news coverage of 2014
and the following years. Representing a conflict along the lines of an East-Western …

The Ukrainian–Russian conflict of 2013–2017 is characterized as 'hybrid'warfare, with a
crucial role of informational component. Using ideological discourse analytic tools, this …

In recent years, the terrorist network Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has generated what
might be referred to as a 'spectacle of fear'through strategic dissemination of execution …

News coverage of the same events is simultaneously driven by homogenizing and
heterogenizing influences. In this paper, we assess whether and when conflict news in …

In the scholarly debate, ideals of original reporting are commonly contrasted against the
churnalistic reproduction of source content. However, most news making lies between these …