教學大綱 Syllabus

1

Introduction

Required reading

• Seib, P. (2005). Chapter 10: The news media and “the clash of civilizations”. In P. Seib (Ed.), Media and conflict in the twenty-first century (pp.217-234). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Additional reading

• Stupart R. (2021). Feeling responsible: Emotion and practical ethics in conflict journalism. Media, War & Conflict, 14(3), 268-281.

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Conflicts and storytelling

Required reading

• Chilton, P. (2010). Chapter 3: The role of language in human conflict: Prolegomena to the investigation of language as a factor in conflict causation and resolution. In P. Seib (Ed.), War and conflict communication (pp.51-67). London; New York: Routledge.

Additional reading

• Colley, T. (2019). Chapter 1: Analysing narratives, identity, memory, and war. In T. Colley, Always at war: British public narratives of war (pp.18-35). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

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Conflicts and the mass media

Required reading

• Gamson, W., & Stuart, D. (2010). Chapter 2: Media discourse as a symbolic contest: The bomb in political cartoons. In P. Seib (Ed.), War and conflict communication (pp.23-50). London; New York: Routledge.

Additional reading

• Fahmy, S., & Neumann, R. (2012). Shooting war or peace photographs? An examination of newswires’ coverage of the conflict in Gaza (2008-2009). The American Behavioral Scientist 56(2), NP1-NP26.

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Conflicts in the age of digital media

Required reading

• Rodgers, J. (2005). Chapter 4: The Internet, politics, and missile defense. In P. Seib (Ed.), Media and conflict in the twenty-first century (pp.83-103). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Additional reading

• Asmolov, G. (2021). From sofa to frontline: The digital mediation and domestication of warfare. Media, War & Conflict, 14(3), 342-365.

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Mediating wars in Taiwan (I)

Required reading

• Liu, W. (2023). The mundane politics of war in Taiwan: Psychological preparedness, civil defense, and permanent war. Security Dialogue.  DOI: 10.1177/09670106231194908

Additional reading

• Hung, C. F. (2022). The Russian-Ukraine war and the Chinese propaganda machine: Evidence from "The Great Translation Movement" on Twitter. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 8(3), 401-435.
• Liu, T. T. (2019). A Farewell to arms? Evolving peace in the Taiwan Strait. In C. P. Peterson, W. M. Knoblauch, & M. Loadenthal (eds.) The Routledge history of world peace since 1750 (pp.333-343). New York; Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Mediating wars in Taiwan (II)

Required reading

• Louzon, V. (2020). Chapter 3: Colonial legacies, war memories, and political violence in Taiwan, 1945-1947. In B. Kushner, & A. Levidis. (Eds.), In the ruins of the Japanese empire: Imperial violence, state destruction, and the reordering of modern East Asia (pp.76-97). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
• Lin, W. P. (2021). Chapter 6: Online war memory. In W. P. Lin, Island fantasia: Imagining subjects on the military frontline between China and Taiwan (pp.140-166). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Additional reading

• Lo, S. H. (2002). Diaspora regime into nation: Mediating hybrid nationhood in Taiwan. Javnost - The Public, 9(1), 65-83.

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Guest lecture on the Taiwanese public’s perceptions of war: Dr Horng-Luen Wang, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica (TBC)

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Case-study based essays and in-class discussions

9

Mediating wars in Asia (I)

Required reading

• Morris-Suzuki, T. (2005). Chapter 1: The past is not dead. In T. Morris-Suzuki, The past within us: Media, memory, history. (pp.1-32). London; New York: Verso.

Additional reading

• Yeom, W. (2009). Going selective? British media’s coverage of the comfort women. Korea Journal, 61(1), 100-125.
• Wang, H. L. (2014). Comparison for com-passion: Exploring the structures of feeling in East Asia. In P. H. Liao, & S. M. Shih (Eds.), Comparatizing Taiwan (pp.59-79). London; New York: Routledge.

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Mediating wars in Asia (II)

Required reading

• Mandelbaum, M. (2010). Chapter 30: Vietnam: The television war. In P. Seib (Ed.), War and conflict communication (pp.152-65). London; New York: Routledge.

Additional reading

• Armstrong, C. K. (2007). Chapter 12: Doubly forgotten: Korea's Vietnam War and the revival of memory. In S. M. Jager, & R. Mitter. (Eds.), Ruptured histories: War, memory, and the post-Cold War in Asia (pp.291-306). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Rawnsley, G. D. (2009). ‘The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea’: How Beijing sold the Korean War. Media, War & Conflict, 2(3), 285-315. 

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Mediating wars in post-Soviet democracies

Required reading

• Baysha, O. (2023). Chapter 3: Zelensky’s transnational populism: “Civilized us” versus “barbaric them”. In O. Baysha, War, peace, and populist discourse in Ukraine (pp.42-57). New York, NY.: Routledge.

Additional reading

• Diuk, N. M. (2012). The next generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan: Youth, politics, identity, and change. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

12

War, media, and generation

Required reading

• Hsiau, A. C. (2021). Politics and cultural nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, narrative, nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Additional reading

• Bolin, G. (2017). Chapter 1: The problem of media and generations. In G. Bolin, Media generations: Experience, identity and mediatised social change (pp.7-25). Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge.

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Guest lecture on conflict reporting: Dr Dana Healy, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS (TBC)

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Conflicts and media ethics (I): An institutional perspective

Required reading

• Matheson, D. (2023). Chapter 27: The ethics of war reporting. In S. Allan (Ed.), The Routledge companion to news and journalism (2^nd ed.) (pp.267-275). London: Routledge.

Additional reading

• Jones, S. (2021). Chapter 8: It’s not just about empathy: Going beyond the empathy machine in immersive journalism. In T. Uskali, A. Gynnild, S. Jones, & E. Sirkkunen (Eds.), Immersive journalism as storytelling: Ethics, production, and design (pp.82-95). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis.
• Ess, C. (2020). Digital media ethics (3^rd ed.). Cambridge: Polity Press.

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Conflicts and media ethics (II): A global citizenship perspective

Required reading

• Butler, J. (2009). Chapter 2: Torture and the ethics of photography: Thinking with Songtag. In J. Butler, Frames of war: When is life grievable? (pp.63-100) London; New York: Verso.

Additional reading

• Chouliaraki, L. (2011). ‘Improper distance’: Towards a critical account of solidarity as irony. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 14(4), 363-381. 
• Verma, R. (2017). Chapter 1: Seeking peace activists and global citizens. In R. Verma, Critical peace education and global citizenship: Narratives from the unofficial curriculum (pp.16-35) New York; London : Routledge.

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Preparation for end-of-term presentations/exhibitions (I)

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Preparation for end-of-term presentations/exhibitions (II)

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Student presentations/exhibitions and conclusion