Coverage of the Yemeni Civil War in Saudi Arabia and Qatar

The study “Two Tales of One War: Understanding the Media Coverage of the Yemeni Civil War in Saudi Arabia and Qatar” by Talha Ismail Duman and Furkan Halit Yolcu from Sakarya University in Turkey looked at the role of media in asymmetrical conflicts between state and nonstate actors, specifically, how the Yemeni conflict was covered … Continued

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Published: 25 Sep 2023

Nationalistic media narratives in TV during the India-China border conflict

The study “Primetime Nationalism: Analysing Monologues on India’s Republic TV and Times Now During Indo-China Border Conflict” by Anilesh Kumar from Hong Kong Baptist University looked at the media narrative construction in English language broadcast news in India regarding the India-China border conflict of 2020. As shown in previous studies, media narratives are shaped by … Continued

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Published: 10 Aug 2023

East Ukrainian media audiences and discussion modes

The article “Logics of Exclusion: How Ukrainian Audiences Renegotiate Propagandistic Narratives in Times of Conflict” by Olga Pasitselska from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was a discourse and conversational analysis of shared meanings among media audiences in Eastern Ukraine, and their interaction modes. The context of the study was the pre-invasion Russian-Ukrainian conflict in Eastern … Continued

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Published: 23 Apr 2022

Revisiting the photo essay Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace

The article “Messiness in photography, war and transitions to peace: Revisiting Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace” by Rasmus Bellmer and Frank Möller from University of Tampere, Finland looked at photojournalistic approaches to war by studying the online photo essay Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace (1996) by Fred Ritchin and Gilles Peress, and The New York … Continued

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Published: 9 Mar 2022

Eyewitness images in the genre of open-source investigation

The study “Open-source investigation as a genre of conflict reporting” by Sandra Ristovska from University of Colorado Boulder was about the role and scope of eyewitness images in open-source investigation. In it, the author interviewed journalists from the Visual Investigation Unit at The New York Times, which is dedicated to open-source investigation,  and textually analyzed … Continued

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Published: 8 Feb 2022

Process-tracing methodology in the study of armed conflict

The new study “ Forensic conflict studies: Making sense of war in the social media age” by Jakob Hauter from UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies discusses how to sort out the information from the disinformation when studying conflict zones, particularly those that are far away. The article is directed toward social science … Continued

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Published: 7 Sep 2021