War and the media – a simultaneous major change
Session
Journalism, Media and Communication
Description
This paper will address the way the media reports on wars, tragedies, and other events with broad, global dimensions. In the early days of what we know as media and public communication, war chroniclers were part of the armies, close to the battles. They kept records and reported on the flow of victims. As technology developed, armies became more sophisticated, wars changed – and so did the media and the way they reported. In the modern era of wars and media, the Kosovo War (1998-1999) is known as the first internet war. But how much did wars change and how much did the media change the forms of reporting? The change is more than noticeable. The war in Ukraine, the wars in the Middle East, the actions against criminal drug trafficking groups, and even major natural disasters, revealed a completely new war-media-public relationship. The live broadcast of a terrorist act in Australia, where the whole world saw how a man with a camera in his hat was killing people, changed this relationship forever. Technology has made wars never the same again. But, the ways of reporting from the war are completely different – live!
Keywords:
war, media, reporting, technology
ISBN
978-9951-982-41-2
Location
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
25-10-2025 9:00 AM
End Date
26-10-2025 6:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2025.237
Recommended Citation
Zejnullahu, Safet, "War and the media – a simultaneous major change" (2025). UBT International Conference. 17.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2025UBTIC/JMC/17
War and the media – a simultaneous major change
UBT Lipjan, Kosovo
This paper will address the way the media reports on wars, tragedies, and other events with broad, global dimensions. In the early days of what we know as media and public communication, war chroniclers were part of the armies, close to the battles. They kept records and reported on the flow of victims. As technology developed, armies became more sophisticated, wars changed – and so did the media and the way they reported. In the modern era of wars and media, the Kosovo War (1998-1999) is known as the first internet war. But how much did wars change and how much did the media change the forms of reporting? The change is more than noticeable. The war in Ukraine, the wars in the Middle East, the actions against criminal drug trafficking groups, and even major natural disasters, revealed a completely new war-media-public relationship. The live broadcast of a terrorist act in Australia, where the whole world saw how a man with a camera in his hat was killing people, changed this relationship forever. Technology has made wars never the same again. But, the ways of reporting from the war are completely different – live!