Media and mass atrocity: the Rwanda genocide and beyond
Waterloo, Ontario:
Centre for International Governance Innovation
(2019), x, 637 pp.
ISBN 978-1-928096-72-6
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other contexts across the developing world. It also looks at the aftermath of the genocide: the shifting narrative of the genocide itself, the evolving debate over the role and impact of hate media in Rwanda, the challenge of digitizing archival records of the genocide, and the fostering of free and independent media in atrocity's wake. The volume also probes how journalists themselves confront mass atrocity and examines the preventive function of media through the use of advanced digital technology as well as radio programming in the Lake Chad Basin and the Democratic Republic of Congo." (Publisher)
Contents
Introduction / Allan Thompson, 1
THE RWANDA CASE
1 The Media and the Rwanda genocide / Romeo Dallaire, 17
2 Reporting the genocide / Mark Doyle, 33
3 Listen carefully, looking harder: the role of language in media coverage during the Rwandan Genocide, 1994 / Catherine Bond, 53
4 Genocide video / Allan Thompson, 75
5 What is the relationship between hate radio and violence? Rethinking Rwanda' "Radio Machete" / Scott Straus, 97
6 The Rwandan patriotic front's information and communication strategy / Filip Reyntjens, 133
AFTER MASS ATROCITY
7 Beyond Rwanda? Reporting atrocity in a changing communications enviornment / Simon Cottle, 159
8 Digitizing genocide: the work of the genocide archive of Rwanda / Paul Rukesha, 183
9 The role of the media in fostering a culture of critical engagement in the context of mass atrocities: examples from Rwanda, Columbia and South Sudan / Mark Frohardt and Paula Orlando, 205
ECHOES OF RWANDA
10 "We have failed as a continent": covering an African atrocity" for an African audience / J. Siguru Wahutu, 237
11 Journalism on Darfur between social fields: global an national forces / Joachim J. Savelsberg, 253
12 Commitment amid conflict: the experience of central African journalists covering their country's war / Michelle Betz, 275
13 "More important than jihad of the sword": The islamic state's media strategy and the Yazidi genocide / Michael Petrou, 291
14 Hate speech in Burma / Alan Davis, 305
15 Social media and conflict in South Sudan: a lexicon of hate speech terms / Theo Dolan and Will Ferroggiaro, 319
JOURNALISM AND MASS ATROCITY
16 The love affair with war / Paul Watson, 343
17 A post-colonial model of International News: perspectives and contributions of stringers and local journalists in Central Africa / Anjan Sundaram, 365
18 Marketplace of ideas or little shop of horrors? Comparing US News coverage of local and distant suffering / Lauren Kogen, 393
SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW ACTOR
19 Social media in Africa: an emerging force for autocrats and activists / Geoffrey York, 415
20 Caliphate's imagined soldiers: analyzing the promotion of "lone wolf" attacks in Rumiyah magazine / Nadia Hai, 431
21 Typology of the Islamic state's social media distribution network / Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, 453
22 "Fake News," dangerous speech and mass violence: challenges for social media in the developing world / Stephanie MacLellan, 483
23 Patriotic trolling: a survey of state-sponsored trolling worldwide / Nick Monaco and Carly Nyst, 501
24 Social media and the changing nature of conflict and conflict response as seen through the Syria conflict mapping project / Chris McNahoe. 531
PREVENTION
25 Advanced digital technology and genocide and mass atrocities prevention / Steven Livingston and Alice Musabende, 557
26 Radio as a tool in countering violent extremism: case study of the Lake Chad Basin and Boko Haram / David Smith, 579
27 Radio and Rwandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Bert Ingelaere, 597
28 Epilogue / Allan Thompson, 615
THE RWANDA CASE
1 The Media and the Rwanda genocide / Romeo Dallaire, 17
2 Reporting the genocide / Mark Doyle, 33
3 Listen carefully, looking harder: the role of language in media coverage during the Rwandan Genocide, 1994 / Catherine Bond, 53
4 Genocide video / Allan Thompson, 75
5 What is the relationship between hate radio and violence? Rethinking Rwanda' "Radio Machete" / Scott Straus, 97
6 The Rwandan patriotic front's information and communication strategy / Filip Reyntjens, 133
AFTER MASS ATROCITY
7 Beyond Rwanda? Reporting atrocity in a changing communications enviornment / Simon Cottle, 159
8 Digitizing genocide: the work of the genocide archive of Rwanda / Paul Rukesha, 183
9 The role of the media in fostering a culture of critical engagement in the context of mass atrocities: examples from Rwanda, Columbia and South Sudan / Mark Frohardt and Paula Orlando, 205
ECHOES OF RWANDA
10 "We have failed as a continent": covering an African atrocity" for an African audience / J. Siguru Wahutu, 237
11 Journalism on Darfur between social fields: global an national forces / Joachim J. Savelsberg, 253
12 Commitment amid conflict: the experience of central African journalists covering their country's war / Michelle Betz, 275
13 "More important than jihad of the sword": The islamic state's media strategy and the Yazidi genocide / Michael Petrou, 291
14 Hate speech in Burma / Alan Davis, 305
15 Social media and conflict in South Sudan: a lexicon of hate speech terms / Theo Dolan and Will Ferroggiaro, 319
JOURNALISM AND MASS ATROCITY
16 The love affair with war / Paul Watson, 343
17 A post-colonial model of International News: perspectives and contributions of stringers and local journalists in Central Africa / Anjan Sundaram, 365
18 Marketplace of ideas or little shop of horrors? Comparing US News coverage of local and distant suffering / Lauren Kogen, 393
SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW ACTOR
19 Social media in Africa: an emerging force for autocrats and activists / Geoffrey York, 415
20 Caliphate's imagined soldiers: analyzing the promotion of "lone wolf" attacks in Rumiyah magazine / Nadia Hai, 431
21 Typology of the Islamic state's social media distribution network / Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, 453
22 "Fake News," dangerous speech and mass violence: challenges for social media in the developing world / Stephanie MacLellan, 483
23 Patriotic trolling: a survey of state-sponsored trolling worldwide / Nick Monaco and Carly Nyst, 501
24 Social media and the changing nature of conflict and conflict response as seen through the Syria conflict mapping project / Chris McNahoe. 531
PREVENTION
25 Advanced digital technology and genocide and mass atrocities prevention / Steven Livingston and Alice Musabende, 557
26 Radio as a tool in countering violent extremism: case study of the Lake Chad Basin and Boko Haram / David Smith, 579
27 Radio and Rwandan rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Bert Ingelaere, 597
28 Epilogue / Allan Thompson, 615
