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Author Bakir, Vian, 1971-

Title Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication : Iraq, USA, UK / Vian Bakir.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Web-based participatory media, strategic political communication and sousveillance -- Bearing witness during the 2003 Iraq War : embeds and bloggers : Controlling the military's image : abu Ghraib (2004) and Is this the way to Armadillo (2005) -- Controlling Saddam Hussein's image : his capture (2003) and execution (2006) -- Sousveillance and strategic political communication : developments and implications.
Summary Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication offers insights into impacts on strategic political communication of the emergence of web-based participatory media ('Web 2.0') across the first decade of the 21st century. Countering the control engendered in strategic political communication, Steve Mann's concepts of hierarchical sousveillance (politically motivated watching of the institutional watchers) and personal sousveillance (apolitical, human-centred life-sharing) is applied to Web 2.0. Focusing on interplays of user-generated and mainstream media about, and from, Iraq, detailed case studies explore different levels of control over strategic political communication during key moments, including the start of the 2003 Iraq war, the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, and Saddam Hussein's execution in 2006. These are contextualized by overviews of political and media environments from 2001-09. Dr Bakir outlines broader implications of sousveillant web-based participatory media for strategic political communication, exploring issues of agenda-building, control, and the cycle of emergence, resistance and reincorporation of Web 2.0. Sousveillance cultures are explored, delineating issues of anonymity, semi-permanence, instanteneity resistance and social change. --From publisher's description.
Note Print version record.
Subject Iraq War (2003-2011) (OCoLC)fst01802311
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war.
Communication in politics -- Iraq.
Communication in politics -- United States.
Communication in politics -- Great Britain.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Iraq.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- Military.
Communication in politics. (OCoLC)fst00870243
Mass media and war. (OCoLC)fst01011378
Mass media -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01011278
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2003-2011
Other Form: Print version: Bakir, Vian, 1971- Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication. New York : Continuum, ©2010 9780826430083 (DLC) 2009049171 (OCoLC)468233474
Standard No. 9786612821998
3505612
ISBN 9781441172402 (electronic bk.)
1441172408 (electronic bk.)
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