MWC Journal

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Special issue is out, What Matters? The Politics of Narrating War. Some brilliant papers. Edited by Adam B. Lerner, @amiskimmon and @Ben_OLoughlin. Thanks @SageMedia_Comm. Links to articles here: newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/2025…

“Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone”, my article, out now, Media, War & Conflict @MWC_Journal What links drones-literal/metaphoric surrender-aviation & art hist-technology-speed-spaghettification+++? doi.org/10.1177/175063…

New article in Media, War and Conflict journal, ‘So, we have occupied TikTok’: Ukrainian women in #ParticipativeWar (doi.org/10.1177/175063…). Co-authored with @ninabjorge at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy. Thanks to the brilliant people at the @MWC_journal and -network.

The first paper from my PhD on #Ukraine wartime digital diplomacy has been published in @MWC_Journal !💥 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @oiioxford @greentempleton @UniofOxford

New and out: Media coverage of the Russo–Ukraine war beyond the West: Geopolitics and mainstream news in Brazil, India and South Africa, by @AntalWozniak82, Zixiu Liu and @FabienneLind. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

It's also worth reading and engaging with Delphin's academic article in @MWC_Journal. This is a more thorough contextual analysis of misleading/harmful media framings of the violence affecting the Banyamulenge in DRC: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Our co-editor @Ben_OLoughlin's new Call for Papers: #Hubris in International Relations 6 Jan deadline for your abstracts A #BISA2025 preconference at @QUBelfast 16-17 June 2025. Co-organised with @amiskimmon & Adam Lerner. newpolcom.rhul.ac.uk/npcu-blog/2024…

Also, while we're tweeting... If you've published a book on anything Media, War and Conflict, slide into our DMs. We're always interested in new things to review.

You can find the full submission guidance, including the peer-review protocol and guidance on what should be included in the research statement at: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

In particular, we're interested in short films (up to 40min) or video essays (up to 15min in a time-based medium) with an accompanying research statement.

Big news! We're now accepting creative practice submissions in the form of video essays and original short films for publication. Innovative work that contributes to existing debates and identifies emerging challenges in the convergence of media, war and conflict.

Big discussion today: we ask how journalists *could* report what peace *is* when its hard to imagine what peace (or reconstruction, or...) might look like. With @babakbahador9 at the International Journal of Press/Politics Annual Conference. #future #imagination #reporting

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📊 New paper out! Together w/ @gusiting @nuernbergk, I examined how German political journalists and correspondents report on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war on #Twitter. Results are now published @MWC_Journal: doi.org/10.1177/175063… @MewiTrier @TrierUni (1/5)

Do #BokoHaram and journalism gain mutual benefit from spectacular terrorism? New in @MWC_Journal: Performing terror, communicating fear: Analysing terrorism as performance of violence, by @MercyUEtte. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

ICYMI my article on nuclear narratives and Oppenheimer is out now in the September issue of @MWC_Journal

Happy to announce my new article @MWC_Journal "Radio Okapi online newspapers: Between media framing, conflict and peacebuilding". Thx @fidele_sebahizi @pbaseka @ShacklockTom @judithverweijen journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Ryan Shaffer reviews Iulian Chifu and Greg Simons', Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century: The Influence and Effects of the Politics, Information and Communication Mix

@Cmcm1991 reviews Robert Burgoyne's, The New American War Film journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our September issue is just out, with some excellent contributions. See the full index at journals.sagepub.com/toc/mwca/17/3 (and below).