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How is the new media landscape changing the face of political violence and conflicts? That’s the question to be addressed by some of the country’s most high profile journalists, academics and activists at a conference starting today at The Australian National University.
The conference, War 2.0: Political Violence and New Media, brings together a wide range of experts to discuss how new media, social media and the Internet are fundamentally changing the ways that conflicts are reported and viewed. Speakers on the opening day include Sydney Morning Herald photographer Kate Geraghty, Australian Ambassador for Counter Terrorism Bill Paterson, Crikey publisher Eric Beecher and SBS Dateline video journalist Sophie McNeill.
The second day will include a keynote address from Sydney Morning Herald reporter Paul McGeough and a panel discussion including Professor Hugh White of the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and University of Canberra journalism academic Julie Posetti.
“Today, war is conducted not only by the dispatch of Tomahawks in the air or Kalashnikovs and suicide attacks on the ground but also by means of tweets, digital images, and social networking forums. New media technology, in other words, has become a medium of war and diplomacy,” said conference organiser Dr Jacinta O’Hagan.
“This event looks at the ways conflicts and international diplomacy are being changed by new media and what that means for media-military relations, traditional media and those marginalised by war, conflict and terrorism,” she said.
