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Media, War & Conflict is an international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively mediated age.

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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 first task now is to survive. Journalists now allowed the use drone detectors in Ukraine but is it too late?
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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
They propose emerging concept of J'activist to combine role of journalist and activist
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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
(Typos courtesy of @richardstupart.com)
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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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Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com · 19/04/2026
Our study "The architect of the invasion" vs. "a symbol of resilience:" How AI chatbots frame Zelenskyy, Putin and the Russia-Ukraine war is just out in @mwcjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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“The architect of the invasion” vs. “a symbol of resilience”: How AI chatbots frame Zelenskyy, Putin and the Russia–Ukraine war - Nataliya Roman, Nataliia Laba, John H. Parmelee, 2026
This qualitative content analysis conducted in November 2024 examines how four AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Anthrop...
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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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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Watch a new documentary about photography, memory and disappearance in Argentina by Piotr Cieplak.
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(Dis)Appear, a film about memory, photography, and the Argentine dictatorship - Buenos Aires Herald
The Herald is hosting the documentary in the wake of the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup
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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
And finally, "Narratives of conflict: Russian media’s evolving treatment of Ukraine" by Ecaterina Locoman and Richard R Lau examines state-run TV narratives from the 2013 Euromaidan, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the periods leading up to and after the 2022 invasion. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"A fragile narrative: Transformations and consistency in the Russian representation of the war in Ukraine" by Intigam Mamedov looks at core transformations in the Russian narrative of the war in Ukraine. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Moral framing in Ukraine war coverage" by John H Parmelee, Nataliya Roman and Berrin Beasley uses computational methods to explore the moral framing of the war. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Digitally witnessable war from pereklychka to propaganda: Unfolding Telegram communication during Russia’s war in Ukraine" by Miglė Bareikytė and Mykola Makhortykh explores practices of digital witnessing in platform communities. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"The effects of the war in Ukraine on the environment of Ukrainian artists: An evaluation by a diagnostic survey" by Józef Ober, Serhii Rusakov and Tetiana Matusevych explores the socioeconomic and cultural challenges facing artists in conflict-affected areas. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Framing NATO in China during the 2022 war in Ukraine" by Shixin Ivy Zhang, Zixiu Liu and Altman Yuzhu Peng explores how NATO is presented to Chinese audiences. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Personalized, war and peace journalism on Twitter: The Russo-Ukrainian War through the lens of political journalists" by Nina Fabiola Schumacher, Kristin Shi-Kupfer and Christian Nuernbergk looks at the coverage of the war by German political journalists and correspondents. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Can encryption save lives? Secure messaging and its infrastructure as loci of convergence between cyber warfare and conventional warfare: The case of Ukraine" by Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani revisit debates about the value of encryption in the context of Ukraine. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Media coverage of the Russo–Ukraine war beyond the West: Geopolitics and mainstream news in Brazil, India and South Africa" by Antal Wozniak, Zixiu Liu and Fabienne Lind looks at coverage of the conflict in countries outside of the typical Western news markets. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"Transformation of a war journalist profession: The case of the full-scale Russo–Ukrainian conflict" by Agnieszka Węglińska, Aleksandra Seklecka, Wojciech Peszyński and Bogusław Węgliński looks at changes in the technologies used by Ukrainian journalists. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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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
"Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone" by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox discusses the airborne drone in relation to concepts of surrender. doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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