This volume explores how and why particular media narratives prevail during conflict across various regional digital contexts.

The book critically examines how the media in different parts of the world constructs, negotiates and challenges narratives in conflicts, bilateral relations, migrations, wars and peacebuilding. The chapters explore the media’s dual role as a site of representation and agency, shaping identities, influencing discourse, and mediating power between dominant and counter-hegemonic narratives. A key contribution is its focus on underexplored current themes, including digital media’s role in amplifying asymmetric voices, exiled and resistance media’s counter-hegemonic narratives, and the affective dimensions of mediated narratives. The volume employs interdisciplinary and qualitative methods to investigate cases of conflicts and wars in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, and South and East Asia. It interrogates the politics of representation and media impact by drawing on communication, narrative, postcolonial and gender studies. It also offers rich empirical insights into various regions and advances debates in media, conflict, and displacement studies, serving as an essential resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand the transformative role of media in shaping contemporary conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, conflict studies, and International Relations.

Ehab Galal is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author/editor of several books, including Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication: New Approaches (2023) and Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity (2014).