Cybermedia Go to War : Role of Converging Media During and after the 2003 Iraq War

by Berenger, Ralph D.; Dennis, Everette E.

• ISBN13: 9780922993499
• ISBN10: 0922993491
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Marquette Books

Author Biography

Ralph D. Berenger (Doctor of Arts, Idaho State University) is an assistant professor journalism and mass communication at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where he teaches courses in international communication, ethics, media management and communication theory. He has published scores of scholarly articles, book chapters and book reviews, and has more than 30 years of professional experience as a newspaper and magazine reporter, editor, publisher and international consultant. His edited or co-authored books include Global Media Go the War and Media Musings: Interviews with Great Thinkers (both Marquette Books, 2004).Everette E. Dennis (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is the Distinguished Felix E. Larkin Professor of Media and Entertainment Industries at Fordham University. He has written numerous books and is senior contributing editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.And other contributors: Emmanuel Alozie, Lama Al-Hammouri, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Tal Azran, Eric Bain, Abdelilah Bouasrias, Tim Boudreau, Lisa Brooten, Shaun Peter Cannon, Elaine Cardenas, Rawan Damen, Steven Dick, Daniela V.Dimitrova, Andrea Falkenhagen, Carlos Fontes, Tao Lam Fung, Injy Galal, Naglaa Hassanien, Dina Hussein, Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye, Amy Mowafi, Stephen Quinn, Jon R.Pike, Shafiqur Rahman, Jyotika Ramaprasad, Chelsea Ross, Atsushi Tajima, Lamya Tawfik, Kaye D.Trammell, Melissa A. Wall, David Weinstock, and Andrew Paul Williams.

Table of Contents

ABOUT THE AUTHORS,	11	(8)
FOREWORD,	19	(4)
Everette E. Dennis
INTRODUCTION,	23	(16)
Ralph D. Berenger
PART I THE 2003 IRAQ WAR IN AN ERA OF CONVERGENT MEDIA
1. War Reporting and the Technologies of Convergence,	39	(16)
Stephen Quinn
2. How International Newspapers Framed the Pre-Iraq War Debate,	55	(17)
Atsushi Tajima, Eric Bain, Tao Lam Fung, Andrea Falkenhagen and Chelsea Ross
3. A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of the Iraq War in The New York Times, Its Online Version, and Yahoo! News,	72	(20)
Shafiqur Rahman and Jyotika Ramaprasad
4. Analysis of BBC News Online Coverage of the Iraq War	92	(11)
Daniela V. Dimitrova
5. From Osama Bin-Laden's Mouthpiece to the Darling of the Alternative Media Web Sites: Representation of English.aljaleera.net in the West,	103	(12)
Tal Azran
6. Operation Iraqi Freedom or Invasion of Iraq: Arab Interpretation of CNN and Al-Jaleera Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War,	115	(11)
Injy Galal, Amy Ahmed and Lama al-Hammouri
7. Heroes and Villains in the Land of the Two Rivers: How aljazeera.net Told the Story of the Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq,	126	(26)
Muhammad Ayish
PART II THE CONVERGENT MEDIAS' POWER TO MOBILIZE
8. A Passion for Peace and Justice: Indymedia, the Global Voice from Below,	152	(19)
Carlos Fontes
9. Connecting the Local and the Global During War: A Case Study of the St. Louis Independent Media Center,	171	(16)
Lisa Brooten
10. MoveOn.org Goes to the Movies: A Case Study in Contemporary Antiwar Activism and Base-Building,	187	(12)
Jon R. Pike
11. E-MobilLing the Peaceniks Down Under,	199	(14)
Shaun Peter Cannon
12. Iraq's Cyber-Insurgency: The Internet and the Iraqi Resistance,	213	(21)
Ibrahim Al-Marashi
PART III HOW PEOPLE USED NEW MEDIA DURING THE WAR
13. Information Warfare: E-mail as an Instrument of Propaganda During the 2002-2003 Iraq Crisis,	234	(19)
Emmanuel C. Alozie
14. Internet Use by Elite Egyptian Youth During 2003 Iraq War: A Uses & Gratifications Study,	253	(16)
Dina Hussein and Naglaa Hassanien
15. Identities Under Construction: A Study of the Personal Home Pages of Arab Youth in Conflict Zones,	269	(13)
Lamya Tawfik
16. Clueless on the Home Front, or While Iraq Burned,	282	(12)
Elaine Cardenas
PART IV SLOGGING DURING WAR: A NEW JOURNALISTIC FORM OR TRIVIAL SELF-EXPRESSION?
17. Blogs over Baghdad: A New Genre of War Reporting,	294	(10)
Melissa A. Wall
18. Is this Mic On? Celebrity Use of Blogs to Talk Politics During the War in Iraq,	304	(12)
Kaye D. Trammell
19. Blog Day Afternoon: Are Blogs Stealing Audiences Away from Traditional Media Sources?	316	(20)
Thomas J. Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye
PART V EFFECTS OF CONVERGENT MEDIA
20. Remember the "Big Picture": A Photojournalistic Icon of the Iraq War in the "IDS" Age,	336	(21)
David D. Perlmutter
21. Changing Faces: The First Five Weeks of the Iraq War,	357	(16)
Carol B. Schwalbe
22. Net Narcissism: Leading TV News Web Sites' Self-Reflexive Coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom,	373	(11)
Andrew Paul Williams
23. Online Iraq War News: Why It Had as Much Appeal as Spinach and Liver to Younger Audiences,	384	(9)
David Weinstock and Tim Boudreau
NAME INDEX,	393	(6)
SUBJECT INDEX,	399