This is a quick reminder that Media, War and Conflict will be hosting an ICA preconference on challenges to contemporary conflict reporting. Deadline for abstracts is 31 Jan and you can read the full CfA at bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

WE'RE HAVING A PRECONFERENCE AT ICA IN CAPE TOWN! Are you a scholar of media, war and conflict? We're having a preconference on the theme of 'Challenges to Contemporary Conflict Reporting" in Cape Town in 2026 and we'd love your abstract! bit.ly/mwc2026cfa

My latest article has been published today in @mwcjournal.bsky.social! Here, I argue that British media reporting on conflict abroad says just as much about domestic political identity, and how Britain still sees itself as a "great power" state. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out my new publication in @mwcjournal.bsky.social - I argue that states use summitry as a digital content to induce ‘digital entitativity’ or to produce their selves as a unitary intentional actor among social media users, by analyzing China’s Twitter content on Xi’s summits.

We also have quite a few articles looking at media and the war in Ukraine out in OnlinFirst, for scholars following the topic.

New articles this month! Here are some highlights: ‘You’re on your own baby’: Sudanese women bridging conflict, journalism, j’activism, and media (in)visibility by Maha Bashri, Carolyn Walcott and Hala Guta looks at the lived experiences of women journalists in Sudan. doi.org/10.1177/1750...

Sudan is in crisis yet global media coverage is scarce. Our piece in @mwcjournal.bsky.social You’re on Your Own, Baby - centers j’activists Sudanese women reporting the war when others won’t. @carolynbwalcott.bsky.social @halaguta.bsky.social @richardstupart.com journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TISIF...

ICYMI. Media, War and Conflict. Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone. Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox. Against a background of contemporary hyperconnected warfare and accelerating advances in drone/robotic systems, this article discusses the airborne

Phillip Levanthal. "As more countries worldwide develop increasingly hostile environments for journalists, MEXICO'S RESILIENT JOURNALISTS offers insights that transcend its geographic focus." An excellent review of Julieta Brambila's book in @mwcjournal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yfftfm94

Please submit a 250 word abstract complete with author and contact information to [email protected] by 23 June 2025. Selected papers from the symposium will be invited to contribute to a special issue, provisionally agreed with the Q1 Sage journal, Media, War & Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social

At the risk of beating a dead horse….the paper I published in @mwcjournal.bsky.social about Zelensky and profile news coverage at the beginning of the Russian invasion might put the utter frenzy of news coverage about Trump/Vance’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office this afternoon into perspective.

By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.

One of our reviewers' favourite papers of 2025 is now out! "Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone" by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox The open access version is available here: doi.org/10.1177/1750...

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

New research from Annenberg doctoral candidate @lizhallgren.bsky.social analyzes Western media’s fascination with Volodymyr Zelensky in the early months of the Russia-Ukraine war. @mwcjournal.bsky.social #CommSky

Some good news! We're delighted to have Dr Saumava Mitra from Dublin City University join our editorial team.

Also, while we're skeeting... 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.

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.

Also in MWC news, we're delighted that @wheretheroad is joining our editorial team.

Welcome to @johana.bsky.social, who is joining us as our reviews editor! Are you publishing on topics around media, war and conflict - books, films or media (broadly interpreted)? We'd love to know about it.

We have some great publications coming out in Online First this week. 🧵

Congrats to the winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) War and Media Studies Scholarly Interest Group 2022–2023 Graduate Student Writing Prize! We're delighted to be part of the judging panel and to publish Hugo Ljungbäck's exciting work! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...