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Shifting Securities examines changing relationships between government, media and multicultural publics in the UK. The Iraq War 2003 and subsequent events raise important questions about the impact of security policy on civil liberties and human rights, democratic participation and citizenship, and racialisation and securitisation. Our findings address the extent to which there has been a breakdown in trust between politicians, journalists and audiences/publics; what kind of revitalisation of democratic processes or media practices might help restore trust and credibility; and how audiences use and interpret the diverse, multilingual news menu available to them at a time of media transformation.

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CLOSING PROJECT EVENT:

Shifting Securities Symposium

Terrorism, Media and War:

From New York to London, From Iraq to Iran

15-16 June 2006 at King's College, London.

 

Speakers included Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (US CENTCOM), Sir David Omand (former Head of Security and Intelligence, Cabinet Office) Prof. Philip Seib, Prof. Philip Taylor, and Prof. Sir Lawrence Freedman.

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LATEST PROJECT NEWS:

 

Project awarded 'outstanding' grade by all five anonymous reviewers in final ESRC assessment! Well done everyone.

 

Forthcoming symposium in November 2008, London, to launch European Journal of Cultural Studies special issue, new books by Gow, Hoskins and O'Loughlin, and new AHRC and ESRC research awards. Details soon.

 

Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (Hoskins and O'Loughlin)

 

New journal from 2008: Media, War & Conflict - includes Call for Papers and details of pre-launch conference in April 2007

 

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