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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our final panel today brings together journalists working in South Africa to talk about the various forms of violence they report on, and the challenges they face. Nic Bothma, Vincent Cruywagen, Thomas Holder and Karen Allen

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Prof Katy Parry @katyjparry.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Questions now for our panel on how journalists manage risks and ethical considerations @mwcjournal.bsky.social

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The final paper in this panel is Oleksandr Chubko talking about his ethnographic research with Ukrainian and international photojournalists noting how quickly the war is changing, and its unique intensity in terms of the sheer amount of soldiers and weaponry

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Dzvinka Hanna Pinchuk presents on Ukraine as a 'laboratory for contemporary conflict reporting' due to its accessibility for foreign reporters. Through a survey with local producers, her research shows how central they are in story and editorial development, not just logistics

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hala Gupta, Maha Bashri and Carolyn Wallcot present their paper on three challenges Sudanese female journalists face in reporting the conflict. There is a tension between personal experiences and professional objectivity. How to make Sudan relatable for audiences who don't know Sudan?

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

In our afternoon panel our first paper from Lesego Phale looks at the persecution of female journalists in South Africa - how do they continue working despite ongoing threats? Are the public aware of this harassment? Lesego uses a podcast to explore these questions

Presentation on women journalists on South Africa

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The current system, he argues, is mastering the form of the news, while cannibalising/ubdermining its public service purpose.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Omar al-Ghazzi talks next about the politics of war reporting in the Arab Media System.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How, she asks, do we think about (and visualise) war and peace? How does this affect our imagination? What else might be possible?

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Isabel Prinzing is presenting next, with a discussion of "Witnessing the in-between"

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The archive on TikTok, she argues, is a byproduct of women's work of mediating their daily lives.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Maha Bashri starts off with an exploration of witnessing and archive building on TikTok.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our next panel is on practices of witnessing, memory and archive building.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

GAI, he argues, is both used to make true suffering sanitary enough to pass through platform censorship, yet at the same time distrusted for its perceived synthetic falseness.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Examples include the use of AI to get around semantic filters, take advantage of lag in censorship response times and rework material to get around filters.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

He asks how GAI is both a tool for activism and creates its own problems for trust and authenticity.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tom Divon presenting "Synthetic realism, Palestinian activism, and the politics of 'Pallywood'"

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For Al Jazeera, the politics and rules of platform censorship become an object of focus in the coverage itself.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Findings include shared framing through different approaches and journalism as an object of reporting itself.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How does platform editorialisation and structure affect the forms that journalistic evidence takes in the same organisation?

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Next up are Reema Altamimi and Lise Dabrowski exploring the reporting of Gaza on Instagram.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Can Ertuna presenting next with "Embedded journalism in a sealed war zone: a comparative analysis of Gaza coverage"

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Noha Mellor is presenting first, with "Sumud as a Palestinian journalistic practice" and the connections between grief, trauma and resistance as core parts of journalism in Gaza. A paper on the topic will be coming out soon in Journalism.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The preconference theme is largely focused on how contemporary conflict reporting is changing. Our first panel has scholars looking at the effect of Gaza on news reporting practices.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kicking off our 2026 ICA preconference this morning. We'll be posting live skeets throughout the day!

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

For those headed to the 2026 ICA conference in Cape Town in June, there are still a handful of spaces for our preconference on the challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. We'd love very much to see you there! www.icahdq.org/mpage/ICA26-...

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 04/05/2026

Delighted to see this new review of my recent book The Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry co-edited with @vianbakir.bsky.social in the journal Media, War and Conflict!!! Check it out! doi-org.proxy.library.nd.edu/10.1177/1750... @mwcjournal.bsky.social

"The shift of focus toward the actors of social media influence operations within the global perspective makes the Handbook of the Influence Industry a very refreshing read, showing innovative perspectives and opening completely new venues for influence research"

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David Ongenaert @davidongenaert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I am happy to share that the article "Constructing childhood in the Russian-Ukrainian War: UNICEF's Instagram representations of children" by Marie Flügge and myself has just been published open-access in Media, War & Conflict :) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🔓️ New open access article from PAIS PhD candidate Raymond Hyma 📰 ‘New trenches of battle: Cambodian–Thai culture clashes in the digital age of nationalism’ by Hyma and Phasiree Thanasin and Suyheang Kry is out now in @mwcjournal.bsky.social 👓 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1750...

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

WE'RE HAVING A PRECONFERENCE AT ICA IN CAPE TOWN! Are you a scholar of media, war and conflict? We're having a preconference on the theme of 'Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting" in Cape Town in 2026 and we'd love your abstract! bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

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Dr Natalie Jester @nataliejester.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

My latest article has been published today in @mwcjournal.bsky.social! Here, I argue that British media reporting on conflict abroad says just as much about domestic political identity, and how Britain still sees itself as a "great power" state. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Great Britain? Constructing great power status through online news reporting of foreign conflict - Natalie Jester, 2025

This article argues that online news coverage of foreign conflict depicts Britain as holding special responsibilities on the world stage, reproducing its status...

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Minseon Ku @minseonku.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Check out my new publication in @mwcjournal.bsky.social - I argue that states use summitry as a digital content to induce ‘digital entitativity’ or to produce their selves as a unitary intentional actor among social media users, by analyzing China’s Twitter content on Xi’s summits.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We also have quite a few articles looking at media and the war in Ukraine out in OnlinFirst, for scholars following the topic.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

New articles this month! Here are some highlights: ‘You’re on your own baby’: Sudanese women bridging conflict, journalism, j’activism, and media (in)visibility by Maha Bashri, Carolyn Walcott and Hala Guta looks at the lived experiences of women journalists in Sudan. doi.org/10.1177/1750...

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

ICYMI. Media, War and Conflict. Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone. Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox. Against a background of contemporary hyperconnected warfare and accelerating advances in drone/robotic systems, this article discusses the airborne

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brendan b. coke @brendancoke14.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Phillip Levanthal. "As more countries worldwide develop increasingly hostile environments for journalists, MEXICO'S RESILIENT JOURNALISTS offers insights that transcend its geographic focus." An excellent review of Julieta Brambila's book in @mwcjournal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yfftfm94

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The Conflict, Violence & Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Please submit a 250 word abstract complete with author and contact information to akil.awan@rhul.ac.uk by 23 June 2025. Selected papers from the symposium will be invited to contribute to a special issue, provisionally agreed with the Q1 Sage journal, Media, War & Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social

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Liz Hallgren @lizhallgren.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 14/04/2025

By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

One of our reviewers' favourite papers of 2025 is now out! "Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone" by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox The open access version is available here: doi.org/10.1177/1750...

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Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone - Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox, 2025

Against a background of contemporary hyperconnected warfare and accelerating advances in drone/robotic systems, this article discusses the airborne drone in rel...

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 21/02/2025

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 05/02/2025

New research from Annenberg doctoral candidate @lizhallgren.bsky.social analyzes Western media’s fascination with Volodymyr Zelensky in the early months of the Russia-Ukraine war. @mwcjournal.bsky.social #CommSky

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New Research Explores How Volodymyr Zelensky’s Public Persona Shaped Early Narratives of the Russia-Ukraine War

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Some good news! We're delighted to have Dr Saumava Mitra from Dublin City University join our editorial team.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Also, while we're skeeting... If you've published a book on anything Media, War and Conflict, slide into our DMs. We're always interested in new things to review.

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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Big news! We're now accepting creative practice submissions in the form of video essays and original short films for publication. Innovative work that contributes to existing debates and identifies emerging challenges in the convergence of media, war and conflict.

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