[H-verkko] CFP: Mini Track on Linguistic Analysis, Discourses and Narratives of Western Military Organizations

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Mini Track on Linguistic Analysis, Discourses and Narratives of
Western Military Organizations

Mini Track on Linguistic Analysis, Discourses and Narratives of
Western Military Organizations 

10th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, 2011,
7-8 July, Tallinn, Estonia

Mini Track Co-Chairs: Professor Aki-Mauri Huhtinen, Marja Härmänmaa,
Marja Vuorinen and Saara Jantunen, University of Helsinki, Finland
	
This track examines the information age representations of war in
political rhetoric and technological syntax. The track focuses on the
actors in information warfare, namely how states and enterprises
construct identities that legitimize participation in conflicts
unrelated to the actor. A special emphasis is placed on the
construction of nationalist discourse and myths through historic
analogies, metaphors and value assignment, and purposeful discourses
of enmity.

The function of eye has become the function of weapons. There is no
war without representation, no sophisticated weaponry without
psychological mystification.

Submission details are given below. Topics for submissions to this
mini track may include, but are not limited to:

1) Different concepts of the enemy

2) Strategic communications and information operations, such as by a
large media corporation

3) The different kinds of military narratives and discourses in
texts, pictures and social media

4) Concepts, categories and typologies of enmity - theoretical or
case-oriented approaches

5) Poor people as a target of risk and business threat

6) The so called hate texts and speeches

Abstract submission deadline: 10 December 2010.

Additional information available from marja.vuorinen at helsinki.fi

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Marja Vuorinen <marja.vuorinen at helsinki.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 11.12.2010
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta:
http://www.academic-conferences.org/eciw/eciw2011/eciw11-home.htm