media, war & conflict - new journal in 2008

Editors:
Andrew Hoskins, University of Warwick, UK, Barry Richards, Bournemouth University, UK and Philip Seib, Marquette University, USA

Reviews Editor:
Ben O’Loughlin Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Media, War & Conflict will map the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively and extensively mediated age. It will explore cultural, political and technological transformations in media-military relations, journalistic practices, and new media, and their impact on policy, publics, and outcomes of warfare.

Media, War & Conflict is the first journal to be dedicated to this field. It will publish substantial research articles, shorter pieces, book reviews, letters and commentary, and will include an images section devoted to visual aspects of war and conflict. The journal will bridge communications, political science, sociology, history, and other disciplines. It solicits submissions not just from academics but also professionals in journalism, the military and other areas related to this subject matter. The editors are looking for innovative, readable work that raises new issues as well as articles that examine new facets of traditional topics.

Topic coverage includes:
Contemporary and historical war reporting
Dynamics of the public sphere
Popular and visual cultures
Credibility, legitimacy, and the security services
Media ethics in the coverage of conflict
Terrorism and counter-terrorism
Intelligence operations and the media
The media as instruments of war
The media’s role in high and low-intensity conflict
Conflict prevention and peacekeeping
Photo and video journalism in wartime
Documentation and commemoration of warfare
and a wide range of other topics.

Media, War & Conflict is seeking articles for the early issues of the journal. Longer articles should be approximately 7,000 words and shorter articles 5,000 words. Submissions will be refereed by anonymous reviewers. All articles should be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 150 words. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with the author’s name and date in the text, and a full reference list in alphabetical order at the end of the article.

All submissions must be sent electronically as Microsoft Word documents to: submissions@mediawarjournal.net.

For editorial board listings, please visit: www.sagepub.co.uk/mwc

Launch conference 2007
April 19-20, 2007
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

www.sagepub.co.uk