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[www.aspeninstitute.org/c&s/pdfs/netpolitik.pdf Available online] or by contacting the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program at (202) 736-5818 or at sunny@aspeninstitute.org.

Andrew Bushell and Brent Cunningham. “Being There: Suddenly the Pentagon Grants Access to the Action, But the Devil’s in the Details,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2003. Analysis of the pros and cons of embedded media with troops in the Middle East.

DiploFoundation. International Conference on Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy (Malta, 20-23 February 2003). Report on a conference attended by 70 participants from 36 countries. Twenty four speakers presented on aspects of intercultural communication in diplomacy. Topics include cultural categories and values diplomats are likely to encounter in their work, stories from diplomatic practice, and case studies examining diplomacy in dealing with contacts between cultures.

Herbert J. Gans. Democracy and the News, Oxford University Press, 2003. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, updates his 1979 classic Deciding What’s News. Reflections on the media and participatory democracy in the context of concerns about increasingly powerful public agencies and interest groups.

Ted Gup. “Useful Secrets: In a Run-up to a War, How Do We Report Intelligently on Intelligence?” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April, 2003.

Mark Hunter. “Is Paris Seething? Anti-Americanism is on the Rise With the Help of the French Press,” Columbia Journalism Review, January/February, 2003. Hunter’s “Letter from France” analyzes media trends, changing attitudes, Internet impact, stepped up U.S. media competition in Europe, and the declining gatekeeper role of The International Herald Tribune.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman. The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World. Oxford University Press, 2003. Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at University of Pennsylvania and Waldman, Annenberg Postdoctoral Fellow, assess news reporting from the 2000 campaign through the period after September 11. Chapter titles include: Press as Storyteller, Press as Amateur Psychologist, Press as Soothsayer, Press as Shaper of Events, and Press as Patriot.

Edmund S. Morgan. Benjamin Franklin, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002. Chapter 5, “The Importance of Opnion,” in Morgan’s masterful new biography provides insights into Franklin’s thinking on public opinion and his uses of political communication while serving as a colonial agent in London.

Terence Smith. “War News,” Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, April 1, 2003. Strengths and weaknesses of the military’s “embedding” program and its influence on news of the war in Iraq.

Susan Sontag. Regarding the Pain of Others, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. Sontag’s short book (131 pages) looks at photojournalism and the documentary imagery of war from Mathew Brady and the Charge of the Light Brigade in the 19th century to Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Balkans.

State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Impact of International Professional Exchanges on a U.S. Community: Philadelphia, PA. ECA’s Office of Policy Evaluation assessment of the impact of international professional exchanges on U.S. volunteers who host or meet with foreign visitors. The evaluation focuses on International Visitor, Community Connections, and Sister Cities programs. (Courtesy of Ted Knicker, ECA)

– One page summary

– Eight page executive summary

University of Windsor (Ontario Canada), Leddy Library. Website with links to a wide variety of news service coverage of the war in Iraq. Includes mainstream U.S., Canadian and overseas news media, governmental news releases, news summary and analysis sources, and various “alternative” news services. (Courtesy of Margarita Studemeister, US Institute of Peace)

Public Diplomacy Institute. Indonesia Town Hall Meeting, “Common Values, Common Challenges”

7:30 – 9:30 a.m., Friday, February 7. PDC members are urged to attend a video dialogue between approximately 50 Americans and 50 Indonesians in GWU’s Jack Morton Auditorium (School of Media and Public Affairs, 21st & H Streets, NW). The program is being developed for rebroadcast on Indonesian Television in cooperation with U.S. Embassy Jakarta, the Public Diplomacy Institute, RCTI Indonesian Television, the U.S. Indonesia Society, and Weber Shandwick. Arranged by State Department FSO Tim Gerhardson and PDI Director Barry Fulton, this early a.m. town hall meeting will be moderated by SMPA faculty member Steven Roberts.

Council on Foreign Relations. The Council’s [www.terrorismanswers.com new terrorism website] uses a Q&A format to provide explanations and backgrounders on terrorism and related foreign policy issues. The site contains a lengthy Q&A on public diplomacy drawn in part from Council’s Task Force on Public Diplomacy report.

Foreign Policy Centre. This London based think tank, directed by Mark Leonard, has begun the first phase of a public diplomacy research program in the Middle East, producing a case study of popular perceptions of public diplomacy in Turkey and Saudia Arabia, to be completed in mid December. A separate strand of PD research will be a reexamination of Norway’s international image and standing.

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The website transcript of Terry Smith’s public diplomacy segment (January 21) includes extended off-air interviews with each of the participants: U/S Charlotte Beers, media analyst Mamoun Fandy, BBG member Norman Pattiz, Radio Sawa news director Mouafac Harb, and Radio Sawa consultant Bert Kleinman.

Daniel Shurgurensky, ed., “Walter Lippmann and John Dewey Debate the Role of Citizens in Democracy,” History of Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century. Concise, evenhanded treatment of this still relevant debate. Useful supplement for those who assign Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion.

Books

Mark A. Abramson and Therese L. Morin (eds.), E-Government 2003. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). The book includes a collection of nine research reports sponsored by the IBM Endowment for The Business of
Government. Among the papers is a chapter by Barry Fulton entitled “Leveraging Technology in the Service of Diplomacy: Innovation in the Department of State.”

W. Lance Bennett. News: The Politics of Illusion, (New York, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2003). Fifth edition of this classic with a new foreword by Doris Graber. Updated with new case studies, research, and material on digital information, post 9/11 news issues, and the impact of the Internet on mass media news.

W. Lance Bennett and David L. Paletz (eds). Taken By Storm: The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994). This collection of 13 papers with an introduction by Marvin Kalb describes the role of the mass media and public opinion in the development of U.S. foreign policy in the 1991 Gulf War. It includes papers by PDI board members Jerry Manheim and Steve Livingston.
(Courtesy of Barry Fulton)

Mark Buchanan. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2002). This discussion of network theory, accessible to the non-specialist, treats social, technological, and scientific aspects of how networks interact and exchange information. Includes discussion of the Internet, information networks, the global economy, disease, and ecosystems.

James Dawes. The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2002). Dawes examines the relationship between language and violence focusing on American literature and two analytical models: The “emancipatory model,” derived from political discourse and deliberative democracy theories, and the “disciplinary model,” derived from poststructuralism and concepts of language as a means to discipline and control violence.

David Frum. The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (New York, Random House, 2003). Chapter 9 in this account by a former Presidential speechwriter deals with the Administration’s post 9/11 communications efforts. References to Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Charlotte Beers, and Norman Pattis. (Courtesy of Dell Pendergrast)

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Richelieu: Art and Power, Hilliard Todd Goldfarb, ed. This catalog (411 pages) written for the Museum’s recent exhibit explores Cardinal Richelieu’s use of the visual arts for political purposes. Thoughtful essays on art, history, psychology, and the subtle use of images to project state power.

Brigitte Nacos. Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism, (Lanham, Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). A substantial rewrite of Professor Nacos’s (Columbia University) 1996 book on the media and terrorism. Includes extensive research on post 9/11 issues and a restatement of her theories on the media as terrorism’s “oxygen” and “propaganda of the deed.”

George Orwell. Essays. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman’s Library, 2002). The only hardcover edition of Orwell’s literary and political writings. Introduction by John Carey. Includes “The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda,” “Politics and the English Language,” (writing advice worth assigning to undergraduates), and a number of Orwell’s BBC World Service commentaries broadcast during World War II.

Sandra Silberstein. War of Words: Language, Politics and 9/11, (New York, Routledge, 2002). A linguist’s critical study of the “strategic deployment of language” by the Bush Administration to build support for the war on terror.

Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan. Journalism After September 11, (New York, Routledge, 2002). Zelizer (Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania) and Allan (University of the West of England) bring together 15 essays on journalism and crisis, reporting by CNN and other global news media, Western representations of Islam, online journalism and other topics. Includes essays by James Carey (journalism pre-and post-9/11), Simon Cottle (television), and Ingrid Volkmer (political crises in a global network society).

Broadcasting Board of Governors. BBG Website has a new look and updated content. Developed by BBG public affairs staffer Joan Mower.

Georgetown University ISD Panels, “Talking with the Islamic World: Is the Message Getting Through?” Spring 2002 series coordinated by Marjorie Ransom with assistance from Mary Gawronski is online in html and pdf formats.

– Session I: The U.S. Image in the Islamic World

– Session II: How American and Foreign Media Present America

– Session III: Projecting a Positive American Image

Michael Medved. “Hollywood’s Contribution to Anti-Americanism,” The National Interest, Summer, 2002, pp. 5-14. “Hollywood may dismiss its silver-screen version of a violent and debauched America as harmless fantasy, but to the rest of the world its the real thing.”

Marc Nathanson. BBG Chair. National Press Club Afternoon Newsmaker Program,
Wednesday, June 26, 2002.Discusses Middle East Radio Network (with Norm Pattis) and other issues.

Neil Hickey. “Perspectives on War: Different Cultures, Different Coverage,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April, 2002. CJR examines different perspectives in media coverage of Afghanistan and events in the Middle East. Neil Hickey compares TV coverage in the West with Al Jazeera. Rick Zednik looks inside Al Jazeera. George Kennedy finds differences in war coverage in the U.S. and the U.K.

Henry Hyde.HIRC Chair. Transcript with Q&A, Speaking to our Silent Allies: the Role of Public Diplomacy in U.S. Foreign Policy, Remarks at Washington Council on Foreign Relations, June 17, 2002.

Shanthi Kalathil. “Community and Communalism in the Information Age,” Reprinted from Spring 2002 issue of the Brown Journal of World Affairs, Volume IX, Issue 1. “Many have extolled America’s ability to wield not only hard military power but soft power, the less easily quantifiable ability to influence, persuade and shape opinion through culture, diplomacy, and diffuse information flows . . . Yet since 11 September, policymakers and the public alike have been confronted with the flip side of that assumption.” Online at Carnegie Endowment Information Revolution and World Politics Project.

Lawrence Kaplan. “Return Address: Why the Bushies Won’t Push Democracy in the Middle East,” The New Republic, June 10, 2002. Kaplan on the views of Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Haass, Lorne Craner, Doug Feith, Paula Dobriansky, Charlotte Beers, Norm Pattis, Andrew Natsios, Thomas Carothers, Mark Palmer and others. Not hotlinked on the TNR website.

Pew Research Center. “Publics News Habits Little Changed by September 11, Americans Lack Background to Follow International News,” People-press, June 9, 2002.” Reported levels of reading, watching and listening to the news are not markedly different than in the spring of 2000. At best, a slightly larger percentage of the public is expressing general interest in international and national news, but there is no evidence its appetite for international news extends much beyond terrorism and the Middle East.”

Amb. (ret.) P.S. Sahai. “Cultural Diplomacy: India in Singapore,” February, 2002. pp 1-18. Amb. Sahai served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1963 to 2000 and is now on the faculty at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development in Chandigarh. He met with Juliet Antunes-Sablosky, Barry Fulton, and Jerry Manheim at GWU on June 25. (MS Word copy available on request.)

John Rendon. Letter to the Editor, The New Republic, June 24, 2002.Reply to Franklin Foer’s “Flacks Americana” article, May 20.

Stephen Seplow. “Closer to Home,” American Journalism Review, July/August, 2002. Long relegated to the margins, foreign news has experienced a modest resurgence since September 11. But much of the coverage has focused on the war on terrorism and the Middle East. Will the blackout return after the crises ebb?”

Charles Skuba. “Branding America,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Summer/Fall, 2002, pp. 105-114. PDF manuscript version available on request.”The United States must use the tools of marketing to promote America’s image abroad.”

Shibley Telami.Statement on public diplomacy before the House CJS Subcommittee, April 24. Online at Brookings. Forwarded by Dell Pendergrast.