Product Description: This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provides a novel interpretation of the factors that drove Western policy towards military intervention in this area...read more

Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.