Conflicts in cyberspace are a reality: elements of any political, economic and military conflict now take place in and around the internet. Not surprisingly cyberwar has become a buzzword in the media and in the political debate. The term has come to refer to any phenomenon involving a deliberate disruptive or destructive use of computers. There also is a widespread tendency to hype the issue w...

Judging from certain mass media two representations of intergenerational relations between adult children and parents seem to emerge: They are either in a state of permanent unsolvable conflict, or they have as little contacts as possible. The cover of an issue of the German magazine "spiegel-Special" on generations is a good example of the first assumption. "Generations in Conflict" appears in...

With the explosion of online news over the past few years and with recent advances in extracting information from text, the question we study is: is it possible to forecast the outbreak of serious conflict by monitoring news media from regions all over the world over extended periods of time, extracting information about events from them, and computationally analyzing the time series of extract...

Employing media richness theory and social information processing theory, a model is developed and tested to understand the impact of communication media and bargainers’ interpersonal history on negotiation processes and outcomes. In a laboratory experiment, common multi-media combinations and the interpersonal histories of subjects were manipulated to examine their effects on task performance ...

Covering a conflict for journalists when they are members of one the conflicting parties has some professional and moral dilemmas. It creates tensions between their professionalism sense belonging to community. This article, focusing on journalism both sides Cyprus, explores how think role in conflict-affected societies. Based semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with from Turkish Cypriot m...

Background. The violent deaths of media workers is a critical issue worldwide, especially in areas of political and social instability. Such deaths can be a particular concern as they may undermine the development and functioning of an open and democratic society. Method. Data on the violent deaths of media workers in Iraq for ten years (2003-2012) were systematically collated from five interna...

It has long been argued that mountains have an effect on wars. While some research understands this chiefly in physical terms, other research looks at the effect that mountains have on human nature. This article will look at the two thousand year history of the term ‘mountain people.’ It will explore how the belief has emerged that living in mountainous regions changes people to the degree that...