Tele-ology: Studies in Television

Bélanger, Pierre C.

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“…I was so amazed to see the treatment of this event in the local media that I had to write about it (Hartley, 1987; 1992a). Its ‘news value’ was never in doubt, but it had nothing to do with military strategy.…”

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“…At the time, this was the largest single piece of military ordnance in the world, a world it sought to command as the latest incarnation of what Henry Kissinger, architect of 'realpolitik', dubbed '100,000 tons of diplomacy'. 21 I was so amazed to see the treatment of this event in the local media that I had to write about it (Hartley, 1987;1992a). Its 'news value' was never in doubt, but it had nothing to do with military strategy.…”

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Strategic stories: weaponized or worldmaking?

Hartley

2023

Global Media and China

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The deployment of strategic stories, that is, stories designed to prevail over adversaries, is at work in domestic politics as well as in diplomacy. In both cases, the strategy has two aims: to create a division between ‘us’ and ‘them’, and at the same time to ascribe moral supremacy to ‘our side’ while posing ‘their side’ as an existential threat. Strategic storytelling specialises in discrimination and foe creation, but the nature of the actors involved has changed in the digital era. Now, ‘we’ and ‘they’ are organised into decentralised and mediated classes based on common identities, enabling collective action at planetary scale (e.g. climate activism, gender and ethnic justice, far-right extremism). At the same time, media platforms and news organisations are part of the apparatus by which strategic narratives are weaponised for warfare. Thus, I argue, digital media analysis needs to understand the ‘strategic turn’ in storytelling, and its deployment by states and ‘non-state actors’ alike, in this case, news media. Alternative models of worldmaking, in which popular culture acts as a pedagogic platform for class formation and activism, enter an ecology in which narrative is already a weapon of war – where it’s aircraft carriers, all the way down.

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Strategic stories: weaponized or worldmaking?

Hartley

2023

Global Media and China

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“…Securitisation is produced relationally through the constant interaction of objects and subjects, including the encounters and overlaps between the securitising actors and audience. Efforts to de-ontologise the audience suggest approaching it as an empirical, theoretical or political product (Hartley, 1992). In securitisation studies, the role of the audience has also evolved, moving from the idea of ‘agents without agency’ to the recognition of its power ‘to engage actively in the process [.…”

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Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis

Ganz

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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In this article, I explore how pride as a collective emotion is ontologically bound to the securitisation of energy and put forward an innovative method that engages materiality and discourse in securitisation theory. I examine the case of energy securitisation in Azerbaijan to show that collective pride is anchored to materialisations and reiterative identity discourses that stick to energy sites and align with the nation in ways that fit with the coercive and controlling nature of securitisation. While the existing literature on emotions and securitisation engages with the process of threat construction and focuses on the audience’s affective experience, I approach securitisation as threat construction and threat management and locate the affective dimension of the process in a transversal space that considers the affective experience of the audience alongside that of the securitising actor. This article pays considerable attention to methods and introduces an experimental new materialist discourse analysis, which accounts for the material, affective and non-human world exerting an agential force on the texts.

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Tele-ology: Studies in Television

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Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis

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