Online Workshop: Exploring Media Narratives in War, Conflict, and Peace – A Scholarly Exploration
The workshop aims to critically explore the role of media in constructing and influencing narratives around war, conflict, and peace. It will examine how media discourses shape public opinion and inform policy decisions, focusing on the media’s essential influence in social and political arenas. By analysing the mediated narratives, the workshop seeks to understand how media contributes to the escalation, continuation, or resolution of conflicts and its potential to foster peace.
Programme
Monday 25 November 2024
| 12:00-12:15 | Ehab Galal: Welcome and introduction. |
| 12:15-12:45 | Can Ertuna: What Can Embedded Journalism Reveal in a Strictly Restricted Battle Zone? A Comparative Analysis of News Packages from Gaza. |
| 12:45-13:15 | Abeer Al-Najjar & Bouziane Zaid: Silencing Gaza: The Western Media Failure of Maintaining Journalistic Ethics. |
| 13:15-13:30 | Coffee break |
| 13:30-14:00 | Ehab Megahed: The Role of AI Fact-Checking Initiatives in Detecting Misinformation During the Gaza War: Case Study of the Arab Information Verification Network (AFCN). |
| 14:00-14:30 | Zenia Y. Henriksen: Exploring Media Narratives in War, Conflict, and Peace. |
| 14:30-15:00 | Altman Y. Peng: Defying a Southern authoritarian state on X in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:15-15:45 | Hala Khan: The Narrative of the “Cool” Cult of War-Charismatic Heroes. |
| 15:45-16:15 | Abderrahim Chalfaouat: Moroccan journalists’ ethics of engagement with Algeria: Perceptions and practices. |
| 16:15-16:45 | Ahmad Abuhamad: Algorithmography and Imagining Conflicts: The Impact of Using AI-generated Content on Journalistic Roles. |
| 16:45-17:15 | Sina Ritt: Narratives of Legitimization: The Israeli Occupation of Palestine in Entertainment and the News. |
| 17:15-17:45 | Sarah El-Abd: Dissent and Contestation Against Peacekeeping in Southern Lebanon. |
Tuesday 26 November
| 12:00-12:30 | Shixin Ivy Zhang & Zixiu Liu: Chinese news media narratives on contemporary wars and conflicts. |
| 12:30-13:00 | Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska: Seeking Light in Darkness Through the Lens of the “Disaster Marathon” Concept: The Reaction of Polish Online Media to the War in Ukraine. |
| 13:00-13:30 | Edina L. Mészáros: Unfolding the frame variations in the Hungarian media coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis. |
| 13:30-13:45 | Coffee break |
| 13:45-14:15 | Lotte Pelckman: WhatsApp Ganbana? Layered narratives of terrorism, inequality and pro-egalitarianism in a West-African transnational diasporic setting. |
| 14:15-14:45 | Mostafa Shehata: The Rise of Harmony Hub: Media Shifting Narratives During the Gaza War. |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Sarah El Richani: Bad news from Lebanon: an analysis of the media and narrative battle. |
| 15:15- 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:00 | Anasuya Virmani: Refugee Discourse in Visual Media: Examining political cartoons of the 2020 Moria Fire. |
| 16:00-16:30 | Muhammed Zeyn: Social Media Narratives and the Lived Experiences of Syrian Refugees in Turkey. |
| 16:30-17:00 | Elise D. Oudeh: Tourists at war: the representations of heritage and culture as instrumentalised by Russian war reporters in Syria, 2015-2020. |
| 17:00-17:15 | Ehab Galal: Closing remarks. |
The online workshop is organised by Ehab Galal, Associate Professor Emeritus, in collaboration with the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.