Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication : Iraq, USA, UK /

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Author / Creator:	Bakir, Vian, 1971-
Imprint:	New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war. Communication in politics -- Iraq. Communication in politics -- United States. Communication in politics -- Great Britain. Mass media -- Political aspects -- Iraq. Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States. Mass media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. Communication in politics. Mass media and war. Mass media -- Political aspects. Great Britain. Iraq. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284699

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ISBN:	9781441172402 1441172408 9781628928310 162892831X 661282199X 9786612821998 9780826430083 0826430082 9780826430090 0826430090
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication offers insights into impacts on strategic political communication of the emergence of web-based participatory media ('Web 2.0') across the first decade of the 21st century. Countering the control engendered in strategic political communication, Steve Mann's concepts of hierarchical sousveillance (politically motivated watching of the institutional watchers) and personal sousveillance (apolitical, human-centred life-sharing) is applied to Web 2.0. Focusing on interplays of user-generated and mainstream media about, and from, Iraq, detailed case studies explore different levels of control over strategic political communication during key moments, including the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, and Saddam Hussein's execution in 2006. These are contextualized by overviews of political and media environments from 2001-09. Dr Bakir outlines broader implications of sousveillant web-based participatory media for strategic political communication, exploring issues of agenda-building, control, and the cycle of emergence, resistance and reincorporation of Web 2.0. Sousveillance cultures are explored, delineating issues of anonymity, semi-permanence, instanteneity resistance and social change. --From publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Bakir, Vian, 1971- Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication. New York : Continuum, ©2010 9780826430083
Standard no.:	9786612821998 3505612

Table of Contents:

Web-based participatory media, strategic political communication and sousveillance
Bearing witness during the 2003 Iraq War : embeds and bloggers : Controlling the military's image : abu Ghraib (2004) and Is this the way to Armadillo (2005)
Controlling Saddam Hussein's image : his capture (2003) and execution (2006)
Sousveillance and strategic political communication : developments and implications.