Rethinking media coverage: vertical mediation and the war on terror

In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. This book develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact and infer power relations far beyond the screen. Focusing on TV news, airport checkpoints, satellite imagery, and drone media, the book demonstrates how "coverage" makes vertical space intelligible to global publics in new ways and powerfully reveals what is at stake in controlling it.

Machine generated contents note: Rethinking Media Coverage -- Vertical Mediation -- Cultural Atmospherics -- Concept Sketching -- 1.Airing: US Television's Vertical Turns -- Vertical Views in TV News -- Machismo in the Mountains -- Walking on Maps -- Feminst Verticality -- Aerial Broadcasting and Leafleting: US Military PSY-OPS -- US Bombing of Al Jazeera -- 2.Searching: Screening Practices at US Airport Security Checkpoints -- Checkpoint Labor -- Close Sensing -- The X-Ray Belt -- 3.Monitoring: Geospatial Imagery and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Reading Satellite Images Like a State -- The Microphysics of Geospatial Images -- From Shutter Control to Google Earth -- Mediascaping -- Resource Speculation -- Monitoring Reconstruction -- Predictive Analytics -- 4.Targeting: Mediating US Drone Wars -- War Theater One Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan -- Drone Attack Photos -- Aerial Assault Videos -- Drone Protest Media

Note continued: War Theater Two The Horn of Africa Region -- Views of Drone Infrastructure -- Infrared Imagery -- Drone Crash Scenes.