@article {17292,
	title = {Navigating the complexities of media roles in conflict: The INFOCORE approach},
	journal = {Media, War \& Conflict},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	month = {2018},
	pages = {3-21},
	abstract = {The article draws on the first findings of the INFOCORE project to better understand the ways in\&nbsp;which different types of media matter to the emergence, escalation or, conversely, the pacification\&nbsp;and prevention of violence. The authors make the case for combining an interactionist approach of\&nbsp;media influence, which is centred on the effects of evidential claims, frames and agendas made by\&nbsp;various actors over time, with greater sensitivity for the factors that make conflict cases so different.\&nbsp;They argue that the specific role played by the media depends, chiefly: (a) on the ways in which it\&nbsp;transforms conflict actors{\textquoteright} claims, interpretations and prescriptions into media content; and (b) their\&nbsp;ability to amplify these contents and endow them with reach, visibility and consonance. They found\&nbsp;significant variation in media roles across six conflict cases and suggest that they are best explained\&nbsp;four interlocking conditioning factors: (i) the degree to which the media landscape is diverse and free,\&nbsp;or conversely, controlled and instrumentalized by conflict parties; (ii) societal attitudes to and uses\&nbsp;of different media by audiences; (iii) different degrees of conflict intensity and dynamics between the\&nbsp;conflict parties; (iv) the degree and nature of the involvement of regional and international actors.\&nbsp;The article maintains that de-escalatory media influence will be most effective over the longer term,\&nbsp;in settings of low intensity conflict and when tailored carefully to local conditions.},
	url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1750635217719754},
	author = {Meyer, Christoph O. and Baden, Christian and Fr{\`e}re, Marie-Soleil}
}
