MEDIA, WAR, AND CONFLICT, a new journal to be published by Sage; first issue April 2008.

LUCIUS W. NIEMAN SYMPOSIUM AND JOURNAL LAUNCH CONFERENCE
April 19-20, 2007
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The launch conference for Media, War, and Conflict will provide a scholarly forum for discussion of a wide range of topics that the journal will address:

• Contemporary and historical war reporting
• Dynamics of the public sphere
• Popular and visual cultures
• Credibility, legitimacy, and the security services
• Media ethics in the coverage of conflict
• Terrorism and counter-terrorism
• Intelligence operations and the media
• The media as instruments of war
• The media’s role in high and low-intensity conflict
• Conflict prevention and peacekeeping
• Photo and video journalism in wartime
• Documentation and commemoration of warfare
  and other topics.

A selection of papers from the conference will be included in the first issues of Media, War, and Conflict.