2016 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Lethal Appetites: Media, Connectivity and Consumption in the Age of Discreet War
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26590104
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
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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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | Surveillance / Conflict / Pre-crime / Technology / Jihadist / Virtuality / New Media / Social Network |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the summer of 2016, I journeyed to Canada to analyze the rise of militarism in Canadian society by visiting an exhibition at the Canadian war museum as well as conducting archival research at the University of Toronto and Concordia University. In March 2017, I journeyed to Europe to collect field data through interviews with academics, scholars, activists and media practitioners. My focus at this stage was to examine how social media shapes and influences terrorist media practices. I attended a workshop of Security and the Law as well as a conference on Politics and Ethics in Bratislava. I traveled to Bologna to do archival research at the Museum of Resistance as well as interviewing Prof. Pescatore and Prof. Innocenti from the University of Bologna on transmedia eco-systems and multi-nodal forms of storytelling. Afterwards, I traveled to the University of Catania to do collaborative writing with Prof. D. Ponton on Western media, migration and security. From our efforts we attained a working draft of paper for publication that will be presented at a conference in Agrigento, Sicily in early June. The results of my research have not only broadened the depth and scope of my scholarship, but allowed me to gain greater experience and expertise in the ongoing and increasingly importance synergy between media, surveillance and conflict. Because of my 2016/2017 field research I was able to deepen my understanding of how post 9/11 discourse is legitimized through both old and new media platforms.
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Research Products
(3 results)
