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