Dead Ground: Time-Spaces of Conflict, News, and Cultural Understanding

Salovaara‐Moring, Inka

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“…News production is a particularly sensitive gauge of the power structure of the global arena' (Salovaara-Moring, 2009a: 88). Salovaara-Moring (2009b) has argued that these elements of journalistic culture combine with journalists' individual subjectivities to create blind spots, both temporal and geographic, in news coverage. She refers to these blind spots as 'dead ground', and while she argues that journalists need to push through into these spaces, we are sceptical about the possibility of eliminating them entirely.…”

Section: On Narrative Media and Constitutionmentioning

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Mediating sovereignty: a comparative latent semantic analysis of US newspapers and conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia

Dittmer

Parr

2011

Media, War & Conflict

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This article addresses the role of news media in mediating and legitimating sovereignty claims within the nation-state system. Given the performativity of sovereignty claims, the speech acts of political actors require mediation in order to achieve their intent. This mediation occurs through formal channels but requires dissemination via popular media to permeate the public consciousness. Journalistic practices play a key role in the degree to which sovereignty claims are narrated. The authors compare the ways in which US newspapers legitimated (or undermined) sovereignty claims by Kosovo and South Ossetia during their respective conflicts. Their research uses latent semantic analysis to reveal narrative emplotments of various actors in each conflict. The results indicate that, despite the potential to be narrated in similar ways, the Kosovo conflict was narrated as a humanitarian intervention, while the Russian intervention in South Ossetia was narrated as an imperialist intervention linked to larger geopolitical competition.

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Section: On Narrative Media and Constitutionmentioning

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Mediating sovereignty: a comparative latent semantic analysis of US newspapers and conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia

Dittmer

Parr

2011

Media, War & Conflict

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“…Hence geography is fundamental to the use of power. Research into the exercise of power allows us to recast the spatial history of the conceived ideological spaces in the process of representation in media discourse (Salovaara-Moring, 2009c, 2009d.…”

Section: N T E R N At I O N a L Journal Of C U Lt U R A L Studies 14(1)mentioning

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Geographies of media and power

Salovaara‐Moring

Maunula

2011

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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•This article explores the representation of the United States in Finnish daily newspapers, 1984—2009. Empirically, it builds on an analysis of editorials and commentaries that focus on US foreign policy. The examples deal with the deployment of US nuclear missiles to Europe in 1984, the Balkans war in 1994, the continuation of the war in Iraq in 2004, and the Cairo speech of newly elected President Barack Obama in 2009. Theoretically, the article reflects on discourses through the geographies of power politics and identity organized by the media of the small borderland country, Finland, at the ideological, economic and cultural-interactional levels. The focal questions are how the frontiers and contours of the evolving geopolitical positions of the United States were articulated, and how territorial units were defined in the spatial and symbolic practices of the commentators. In these discourses, ‘USA’ is constructed through three successive narratives: (a) as a ‘superpower’ in relation to the Soviet Union/Europe, in which new identities are depicted as part of differing positions in power geographies; (b) ‘America’ as an ideological space where the main organizing principles are ‘American’ values and moralities in relation to changing economic and political geographies; and (c) a territorial order of geo-economy in which the USA is represented as the engine of capitalism with its economic superiority highlighted. •

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Colombia: Audiovisual Media Landscape in the Age of Democratic Security

Rodríguez-Luna

2014

Journal of War & Culture Studies

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In a media landscape dominated by private information conglomerates, television documentary should be a key format to ensure a diversity of points of view because it has the possibility to open alternative spaces or heterotopias. This article points out the concept of heterotopic documentaries and applies it to the Colombian case of study of the documentaries of armed conflict produced during the period of Democratic Security Policy in Colombia, a political period in which armed conflict was systematically neglected. In this context, television documentaries of armed conflict that that could be initially understood as a reaction to media invisibility reveal the contradictory character of heterotopia. From the cases analysed in private, public, and transnational television, the idea of heterotopic documentary emerges as a paradoxical audiovisual space that tends to regularize the access of the viewers to the 'other spaces' that it promotes.

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Dead Ground: Time-Spaces of Conflict, News, and Cultural Understanding

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Mediating sovereignty: a comparative latent semantic analysis of US newspapers and conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia

Mediating sovereignty: a comparative latent semantic analysis of US newspapers and conflicts in Kosovo and South Ossetia

Geographies of media and power

Colombia: Audiovisual Media Landscape in the Age of Democratic Security

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