Media, Culture & Society January 2017; Vol. 39, No. 1

Editorial
The media and the military: editorial
John Corner and Katy Parry

Special issue: The Media and the Military
Mare Nostrum: the visual politics of a military-humanitarian operation in the Mediterranean Sea
Pierluigi Musarò

‘When he’s in Afghanistan it’s like our world/his world’: mediating military experience
Katy Parry and Nancy Thumim

Bare Strength: representing veterans of the desert wars in US media
Jenna Pitchford-Hyde

Gendering the authenticity of the military experience: male audience responses to the Korean reality show Real Men
Woori Han, Claire Shinhea Lee, and Ji Hoon Park

‘This is our Call of Duty’: hegemony, history and resistant videogames in the Middle East
Dima Saber and Nick Webber

Imagining an emotional nation: the print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alex McConville, Tim McCreanor, Margaret Wetherell, and Helen Moewaka Barnes

Targeted killing and pattern-of-life analysis: weaponised media
Nina Franz

Crosscurrents
Co-opting feminism: media discourses on political women and the definition of a (new) feminist identity
Jaime Loke, Ingrid Bachmann, and Dustin Harp

Book Reviews
Book Review: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Rikke Bjerg Jensen

Book Review: Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
Alexander L Fattal

Book Review: Surveillance after Snowden
Doug Specht