Books
Carruthers, Susan L. (2011) The Media at War. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Moorcraft, P. L. and P. M. Taylor (2008) Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books
Articles available in compendium
Archetti, C. (2015) "Terrorism, Communication and the Media," in C. Kennedy-Pipe, G. Clubb and S. Mabon (eds) Terrorism and Political Violence (London: Sage), pp. 134-152. 18 pages
Bennett, D. (2013) Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC Coverage of War and Terrorism (Oxon: Routledge), introduction (“The Impact of Blogging on the BBC’s Coverage of War and Terrorism”). 12 pages
Cottle, S. (2006) Mediatized Conflict (Maidenhead: Open University Press), Chapter 1 “Mediatized Conflict in the World Today”; Chapter 2 “Getting a Fix on Mediatized Conflict: Paradigms and Perspectives.” 32 pages
Freedman, L. (2006) The Transformation of Strategic Affairs, Adelphi Paper 379 (London: IISS), Chapter 1 “Networks, Culture and Narratives”; Chapter 2 “The Transformation of Grand Strategy”; Chapter 5 “Strategic Communications”. 57 pages
Hoskins, A. (2004) Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (London: Continuum), especially Chapter 1 “Conflicts of Memory in a Media Age.” 12 pages
Hoskins, A. and B. O’ Loughlin (2010) War and Media: The Emergence of Diffused War (Cambridge: Polity Press), Chapter 1. 18 pages
Lewis, J., R. Brookes, N. Mosdell, T. Threadgold (2006) Shoot First and Ask Questions Later (Oxford: Peter Lang), Chapter 2 “The Background to Embedding.” 21 pages
Nacos, B. (2002) Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism (New York: Rowman & Littlefield), Chapter 1 “Mass-Mediated Terrorism in the New World (Dis)Order”. 29 pages
Paletz, D.L. and A. P. Schmid (eds.) (1992) Terrorism and the Media: How Researchers, Terrorists, Government, Press, Public, Victims View and Use the Media (Newbury Park, CA: Sage), Chapter 2 “Researchers’ Perspectives”. 22 pages
Stahl, R. (2009) Militainment Inc.: War, Media and Popular Culture (Oxon: Routledge), especially Introduction (“Step Right Up!”) and Chapter 1(“All Consuming War: From Spectacle to Interactivity). 47 pages
Strobel, W. P. (1997) Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media’s Influence on Peace Operations (Washington, DC: USIP), especially Chapter 2 “Driving Fast Without a Road Map: The News Media and foreign Policy Today”. 34 pages
Taylor, P.M. (1993) War and the Media: Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War (Manchester: Manchester University Press), “Introduction: Image and Reality in the Gulf War.” 30 pages
Taylor, P. (1997) Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media since 1945 (London: Routledge), Chapter 3 “Illusions of Reality: The Media and the Reporting of Warfare”; and Chapter 4 “Mind Games: Information Warfare and Psychological Operations”. 80 pages
Taylor, P.M. (1995) Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day (Manchester: Manchester University Press), “Introduction: Looking Through a Glass Onion.” 16 pages
Further recommended reading
Allen,T. and J. Seaton (1999) The Media of Conflict: War reporting of Ethnic Violence (London: Zed Books).
Bennett, L. and D. Paletz (1994) Taken by Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and US Foreign Policy in the Gulf War (London: The University of Chicago Press).
Connelly, M. and Welch, D. (2005) War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda (London: IB Tauris)
Cottle, S. (2006) Mediatized Conflict (Maidenhead: Open University Press).
Hallin, D. C. (1986) The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Hammond, P. and E. S. Herman (2000) Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis (London: Pluto Press).
Hoskins, A. (2004) Televising War: From Vietnam to Iraq (London: Continuum).
Hoskins, A and B. O’Loughlin (2007) Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
Katovsky, B. and T. Carlson (2003) Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq (Guilford: The Lyons Press).
Knightley, P. (2004) The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker From the Crimea to Vietnam (Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press).
Lewis, J., R. Brookes, N. Mosdell, T. Threadgold (2006) Shoot First and Ask Questions Later (Oxford: Peter Lang).
McLaughlin, G. (2002) The War Correspondent (London: Pluto Press).
Nacos, B. (2002) Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism (New York: Rowman & Littlefield).
Paletz, D.L. and A. P. Schmid (eds.) (1992) Terrorism and the Media: How Researchers, Terrorists, Government, Press, Public, Victims View and Use the Media (Newbury Park, CA: Sage).
Seib, P. (2004) Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
Stahl, R. (2009) Militainment Inc.: War, Media and Popular Culture (Oxon: Routledge), especially Introduction (“Step Right Up!”) and Chapter 1(“All Consuming War: From Spectacle to Interactivity).
Taylor, P.M. (1995) Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
Taylor, P. (1997) Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media since 1945 (London: Routledge).