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Draft Project Findings
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| Strand A: AUDIENCES, PUBLICS AND CITIZENSHIP |
| (See also Strand A: Demographic data: Overview or Detailed) |
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| Strand B: NEWS DISCOURSES OF CONFLICT, CATASTROPHE & (IN)SECURITY |
| (See also Stand B: Forthcoming journal) |
| Strand C: POLICYMAKERS, NEWS PRODUCERS, AND 'EXPERTS' |
This research uses the Iraq War 2003 as a trigger to investigate how new security challenges are represented and interpreted in the intersections between government and military actors, news producers, and increasingly fragmented news audiences-publics. Developing informed policy options requires being responsive to the changing dynamics of these relationships. The research will contribute directly to both security and cultural/media policy. It will examine, test and challenge certain standard assumptions about the Information Economy and Network Society, the making and shaping of news, the ideological content of news, the effects of news content on audiences, and the consequences of new media for democratic debate, informed citizenship, and decision-making regarding military conflicts, terrorism and security issues. It will map ‘old’ and ‘new’ media strategies of political communication and propaganda through the interplay of three mutually shaping methodological strands: (A) an ethnography of news consumption in multi-lingual news publics, (B) an analysis of (TV and internet) news narratives and iconographies of war and conflict, (C) a qualitative study of policy makers, news producers and ‘experts’ attitudes, beliefs and value regarding the media-security nexus. Crucially, this involves a reflexive use of the data under analysis. Each of the data sets will help direct and focus the other in a spiralling, iterative manner. This will enable a flexible but rigorous framework for addressing policy, propaganda and public diplomacy issues adequate to understanding our intensively and extensively networked information society. The project would provide rich and robust data and analyses, reliable and relevant knowledge that would contribute much to tackling the challenges and opportunities of social integration and cultural cohesion in multicultural states like the UK. 
Dr. Marie Gillespie (Open University) Professor James Gow (King's College London) Dr. Andrew Hosking (University of Warwick)
Project Assistants
Dr.Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London) Ivan Zverzhanovski (King's College London)
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