The Mundane to the Memorial: Circulating and Deliberating the War in Iraq Through Vernacular Soldier-Produced Videos

How Long Do News Framing Effects Last? A Systematic review of Longitudinal Studies

“…There is increasing interest in studying visual framing via qualitative and quantitative content analyses, and future studies can learn from other fields such as visual argumentation in their theoretical and methodological set-up (cf. Cloud, 2004;Greenwood & Jenkins, 2015;Smith & McDonald, 2011). These content analyses show different categories of visual representation in the news media that may be used in experimental studies.…”

Why do soldiers swap illicit pictures? How a visual discourse analysis illuminates military band of brother culture

“…First, it is clear that digital technology has impacted the mechanisms by which soldier-produced images are circulated and the speed and volume of images circulated. In the past two decades, as technology has advanced and more soldiers go to battle equipped with their own digital camera or cell phone, the number of soldier-produced images has increased dramatically (Smith and McDonald, 2011). These digital images can now be circulated instantaneously.…”

Imitation (In)Security: Cultivating Mimetic Theory to Critique the Media/Security Nexus

“…These changes include continuous innovation in information and communication technology, the rise of “homeland security” and counterterrorism regimes, and the exploitation by Islamist activists of new media capabilities to conduct “virtual Jihad” among global audiences (Awan, Hoskins, & O'Loughlin, ). These developments have intensified scholarly concern with audience agency developed through interaction with polysemic media texts, and the transformation of security regimes arising from popular diffusion of smartphones, editing and encryption software, and social media platforms (Smith & McDonald, ). Because the scope of this work is extremely broad and rapidly growing, space here does not permit exhaustive review.…”