Media and Political Conflict : News from the Middle East
by Gadi Wolfsfeld

The news media have become the central arena for political conflicts today. Previous work on this subject has been limited to looking at the role of the news media in either a particular conflict (such as the Gulf War) or a particular type of conflict (such as terrorism). Media and Political Conflict is the first book that offers a dynamic and comprehensive approach to studying confrontations as small as protests and as large as wars, and applies this approach to analyze three conflicts: the Gulf War, the Palestinian Intifada, and the attempt by the Israeli right wing to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.

About the Editor
Gadi Wolfsfeld is Chairman of the Department of Communication and Journalism, and senior lecturer at the department of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published many articles on political communication and has serviced on the editorial board of Communication Research, Political Communication, and the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. He is the author of The Politics of Provocation, and co-editor of Framing the Intifada. Dr. Wolfsfeld is a regular commentator in the international news media.

Reviews
'This book contributes a level of increased complexity to media analysis in political conflict that is both worthwhile and needed.'
- Allen W. Palmer, Journal of International Communication'There is plenty to admire and a few things to take issue with in Wolfsfeld's well-written and accessible book, something which the author's modest claims and thorough scholarship should well withstand ... it is a thought-provoking analysis of the media's role in various conflicts around the world.'
- Media, Culture and Society'... this is an excellent and well written book which provides scholars with a much needed and fruitful model for the analysis of news media in political conflict.'
- Karin Aggestam, The International Journal of Conflict Management'Wolfsfeld does an outstanding job of illuminating the complicated and subtle dynamics of the relationship between the mass media and the various actors who attempt to use the media to further their interpretation of events.'
- William Gamson, Boston College

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Article by Wolfsfeld: The news media and the second intifada (PDF)
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