Lights, camera, war : is media technology driving international politics /

Lights, camera, war : is media technology driving international politics /

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Author / Creator:	Neuman, Johanna.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Description:	327 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Broadcast journalism. Television broadcasting of news. Journalism -- Political aspects. War in mass media. Broadcast journalism. Journalism -- Political aspects. Television broadcasting of news. War in mass media.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8512275

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ISBN:	0312140045 9780312140045
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-309) and index.
Summary:	Is CNN running foreign policy by dictating which wars we care about? Are leaders' role being usurped by a media whose technology can communicate faster and more emotionally to an unsuspecting public? Johanna Neuman debunks the common wisdom that we are experiencing a revolution in communication technology's influence over political decisions. What she unearths instead is an unrelenting pattern of change whenever new media inventions intersect with the political world, from movable type to the Internet. With a journalist's eye for detail, Neuman documents that each age thinks the technology that blesses its generation is revolutionary and unprecedented. Whenever a new media technology arrives, diplomats complain that their deliberation time is hastened, journalists boast that their influence is increased, and social commentators marvel that new technology will democratize all within its range. Just as predictable is the second pattern: Each generation eventually absorbs the changes demanded by technology and finds other ways of doing business. New technology may shorten the time it takes the public to receive information, but in the end, political leadership trumps media power.

Table of Contents:

The CNN curve through history
The telegraph annihilates time and space
A splendid little war
Gutenberg's revolution
Photography and emotion
Public opinion and World War I
Telephone diplomacy
Film and the global village
Radio goes to war
Cold War politics in the TV age
Television and the war in Vietnam
The media and revolution
The Persian Gulf War
The satellite spotlight
Cyberspace and war
Leadership in the information age.