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About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Preparing for the worst?; 1 Myths of security; 2 Governance, technology and the state; 3 The security regime: state, governance and contingency; 4 The scenario: imagining events; 5 The security event: exercise, emergency and 'real world' crises; 6 The mediated event; 7 'Real world' security: neglect, incompetenceand the overproduction of force; 8 Pre-emption and perception management; Conclusion: Threat and social discipline; Notes; References; Index.

Today, the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes well over 100 military veteran organizations including the American Legion, American Veterans (AMVETS), Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. But these assets, these associations, and these contact resources were not always available. I want to show you how the church "in this case the Baptist church" helped two veterans relocate from the battle trenches of the Civil War to the civilian world following General Robert E. Lee's infamous surrender at Appomattox. The reintegration challenges faced by these two veterans and the assistance they received in addressing them demonstrates how, 150 years ago, the church served as one of our first military veterans organizations. ; Presented at Race and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Society, which took place in Roanoke, VA from November 12-14, 2015. ; Conference hosted by the Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society, Department of English http://www.rhetoric.english.vt.edu/

"This edited collection provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary critique of the acts of public communication disseminated during a major global crisis. Encompassing the work of international scholars, journalists and activists, the book offers an original insight into the relationship between the various social forces that contributed to the 'Covid narrative', analysing the performance of the media, the machinations of the private sector, the behaviour of the security state, the quality of public rhetoric, the dilemmas faced by workers thrust into the front line, the reappearance of racist and sexist discourses, and the response of those subjected to the much vaunted strictures of 'lockdown'. Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic is one of the first global comparative studies of public reaction to the virus, delving beneath established political tropes and state rhetoric, to identify the power relations that were exposed by an event that was described as unprecedented and unique, but was in fact comparable to other major global disruptions. As governments insisted on distinguishing their own propaganda from unregulated disinformation, their increasingly sceptical 'publics' pursued their own idiosyncratic solutions to the crisis, while the apparent sacrifice of a host of citizens - from the most dedicated to the most vulnerable - suggested that inequality and exploitation remained at the heart of the social order. Essential reading for both students and researchers of media, communication and journalism studies, cultural studies, discourse analysis, and sociology of health"--

This collection of essays has its origins in the MeCCSA 2007 conference held in Coventry in January that year. Like most edited volumes which emerge from conference contexts, this one comprises a richly diverse set of original papers which span the various themes and topics which together make up the fascinating field of media and communication. The book is broadly divided into four sections: media/public; media workers and professional identity; media industries and policy concerns; and poli