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A CENTURY OF MEDIA A CENTURY OF WAR - ROBIN AND...

Forged over the course of a century  the connections between war and media run long and deep.
As this book reveals  the history of war and its telling has been a battle over public
perception. The selection of which stories are told and which are ignored helps justify past
battles and ensure future wars. Narratives of protest and pain  defeat and suffering  guilt and
abuse struggle to be heard amid the empowering myths of war and heroism. As Robin Andersen
argues  the history of struggle between war and its representation has changed the way war is
fought and the way we tell the stories of war. Information management  once called censorship
and propaganda  has developed in tandem with new media technologies. Now  digital imaging
creates virtual battlefields as computer-based technologies transform the weapons of war. Along
the way  images on the nightly news  on movie screens  and in video games have turned war into
entertainment. In the grip of virtual war  it is difficult to realize the loss of compassion or
the consequences for democracy.

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