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Lethal Appetites: Media, Connectivity and Consumption in the Age of Discreet War

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26590104
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Sociology
Research InstitutionRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Principal Investigator

MANTELLO Peter A.  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (10454977)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
KeywordsConsumption / Connectivity / Militarism / Consumerism / War / Surveillance / Conflict / Pre-crime / Technology / Jihadist / Virtuality / New Media / Social Network / jihadist / cyber security / sacrificial death / social media / neo-security / privacy / surveillance / power / liberal democracy / biopolitics / governmentality / neoliberalism / terrorism / global war on terror / communism
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project examined the inter-subjective relationship between war and media. The research lead to a deep understanding of the various political-economic practices, techniques and process that lead to the administration of Discreet War. I accomplished this by focusing on the various ways conflict is transformed into a mediated process which in turn, incites a contradictory process of greater opacity in power while a need to create higher degrees of transparency in private life. As such this research project addressed the increasing propensity of opacity in Western media coverage political violence that takes place Western nation states. This phenomenon, I discovered has led to an increasing erosion of the distinction/line between notions of public space and private space. Thus, my field research was in essence an exploration the porous institutional boundaries between social media, data mining and national security.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2017 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 6 results)

  • [Journal Article] Military Shooter Video Games and the Ontopolitics of Derivative Wars and Arms Culture2017

    • Author(s)
      Mantello, Peter A
    • Journal Title

      American Journal of Economics and Sociology

      Volume: 76(2) Pages: 483-521

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The Machine that Ate Bad People: The ontopolitics of the pre-crime assemblage2016

    • Author(s)
      Mantello, Peter A
    • Journal Title

      Big Data and Society

      Volume: 3(2) Pages: 1-11

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Jihadist Media2017

    • Author(s)
      Mantello, Peter A
    • Organizer
      University Workshop
    • Place of Presentation
      Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Media, Connectivity and Consumption2015

    • Author(s)
      Peter Mantello
    • Organizer
      Graduate Class on Journalism and Media
    • Place of Presentation
      Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-20
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Images and Conflict: From Analog to the Digital2015

    • Author(s)
      Peter Mantello
    • Organizer
      Undergraduate Class in Media
    • Place of Presentation
      Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-19
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Conflict in Kulmeria2015

    • Author(s)
      Peter Mantello
    • Organizer
      Global Media Forum: Foreign Policy in the Digital Age
    • Place of Presentation
      Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-23
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Iconography of Discreet War2014

    • Author(s)
      Mantello, Peter
    • Organizer
      Department of Media and Communications
    • Place of Presentation
      Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-15
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Lethal Appetites2014

    • Author(s)
      Mantello, Peter
    • Organizer
      TED x APU
    • Place of Presentation
      Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-22
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Ugly Canadian - Canadian Militarism2014

    • Author(s)
      Mantello, Peter
    • Organizer
      American European Studies Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      The Hague, Netherlands
    • Year and Date
      2014-04-06
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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