Rethinking Media Coverage

Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror

By: Lisa Parks

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Hardcover | 14 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Since the 9/11 attacks, media and security are increasingly intertwined as the media technologies of filtering, sorting and keywording have become essential elements of national defense. In this book, Lisa Parks explores the complex relations between media and security and uses the term "coverage" to develop a conceptual framework for understanding them.

A major goal of this book is to critique the popular idea of coverage as simply a neutral practice of objectively reporting an event by the news media. Instead, Parks argues, media coverage actively involves the power to shape not only how citizens think and act, but also how they imagine global space and power relations in the aftermath of 9/11.

At the heart of this booka (TM)s argument is the way that seemingly benign media technologies such as Powerpoint, YouTube, and Google Eartha "particularly these supporting technologies that are often behind the scenes of larger media systems such as television newsa "have been used to extend the security regime into the spaces of everyday life. Each chapter explores a different media through the lens of a post-9/11 security culture. The first chapter, for example, looks at the ways that television airwaves came to be regarded as public property in the US, and then how the airwaves became a space to be defendeda "for example, by bombing campaigns against Arab satellite television stations after 9/11.

This book is a major contribution to media studies that offers a bold, new understanding of how media technologies shape our perceptions of global space and power relations.

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"In this fearless piece of critical scholarship, Lisa Parks brings into sharp focus a principle strategy of the US military's interminable 'war on terror'-namely, its global domination of the 'vertical field.' As Parks' intricate analysis reveals, this process has both infrastructural and performative dimensions: the staged spectacle of US 'vertical hegemony' has gone hand-in-hand with logistical maneuvering and the physical exercise of military might. Covering a breadth of conceptual territory, Rethinking Media Coverage makes a vital contribution to our understanding of both post-9/11 geopolitics and twenty-first-century media culture." -Kelly Gates, University of California San Diego

"Lisa Parks' call to rethink how we conceptualize the organized violence of the 'war on terror' couldn't be more timely. A brilliant study that ranges from satellite imaging, airports, drone infrastructure and more, Rethinking Media Coverage is an essential guide to understanding the intersections of militarism, technology, entertainment, and resistance." -Simone Browne, University of Texas at Austin

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