Theorising Media and Conflict

Philipp Budka is Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. He is the co-editor of Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance (Vienna University Press, 2019) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

• PrefacePhilipp BudkaPART I: KEY DEBATESIntroduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Theorising Media and ConflictBirgit Bräuchler and Philipp BudkaChapter 1. Transforming Media and Conflict ResearchNicole StremlauPART II: WITNESSING CONFLICTChapter 2 Just a ‘Stupid Reflex’? Digital Witnessing of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Mediation of ConflictJohanna Sumiala, Minttu Tikka and Katja ValaskiviChapter 3. The Ambivalent Aesthetics and Perception of Mobile Phone Videos: A (De-)Escalating Factor for the Syrian ConflictMareike MeisPART III: EXPERIENCING CONFLICTChapter 4. Banal Phenomenologies of Conflict: Professional Media Cultures and Audiences of Distant SufferingTim MarkhamChapter 5. Learning to Listen: Theorising the Sounds of Contemporary Media and ConflictMatthew SumeraPART IV: MEDIATED CONFLICT LANGUAGEChapter 6. Trolling and the Orders and Disorders of Communication in ‘(Dis)Information Society’Jonathan Paul MarshallChapter 7. ‘Your Rockets Are Late. Do We Get a Free Pizza?’: Israeli-Palestinian Twitter Dialogues and Boundary Maintenance in the 2014 Gaza WarOren LivioPART V: SITES OF CONFLICTChpapter 8. What Violent Conflict Tells Us about Media and Place-Making (and Vice Versa): Ethnographic Observations from a Revolutionary UprisingNina Grønlykke MollerupChapter 9. An Ayuujk ‘Media War’ over Water and Land: Mediatised Senses of Belonging between Mexico and the United StatesIngrid KummelsPART VI: CONFLICT ACROSS BORDERSChapter 10. Transnationalising the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Media Rituals and Diaspora Activism between California and the South CaucasusRik AdriaansChapter 11. Stones Thrown Online: The Politics of Insults, Distance and Impunity in Congolese PolémiqueKatrien PypePART VII: AFTER CONFLICTChapter 12. Mending the Wounds of War: A Framework for the Analysis of the Representation of Conflict-Related Trauma and Reconciliation in CinemaLennart Soberon, Kevin Smets and Daniel BiltereystChapter 13. Going off the Record? On the Relationship between Media and the Formation of National Identity in Post-Genocide RwandaSilke OldenburgChapter 14. From War to Peace in Indonesia: Transforming Media and SocietyBirgit BräuchlerAfterwordJohn PostillIndex

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