From the always interesting Geopolitics and security at Royal Holloway:

Media, war and conflict Fifth Anniversary Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London, 11-12 April 2013.

Papers are invited on a range of topics, including:

• Contemporary and historical war reporting
• Changing forms of credibility, legitimacy and authority
• Media ethics in the coverage of conflict
• The role of citizen-users and social media in conflict
• Terrorism, media and publics
• Intelligence operations and media
• Digital and cyber warfare
• Media and conflict prevention, peacekeeping and post-conflict scenarios
• Photo and video journalism in wartime
• War and conflict in popular culture
• The power of the visual and other modalities
• Commemoration and memorialisation of war and conflict

The conference is open to scholars, journalists, military practitioners and activists from around the world.

Abstracts (250 words) to Lisa.Dacunha@rhul.ac.uk by 10 October 2012.

Incidentally, for more on media, war and conflict see (even join) the War and Media Network, whose site has links to the journal and a host of other resources, together with a clutch of reviews of books, films and conferences.