Rethinking media coverage: vertical mediation and the war on terror

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- War Theater Two: The Horn of Africa Region -- Views of Drone Infrastructure -- Infrared Imagery -- Drone Crash Scenes -- Epilogue -- Index