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

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590104
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan 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
• Keywords: Consumption / Connectivity / Militarism / Consumerism / War

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.

Free Research Field

Media Studies