And finally, "Narratives of conflict: Russian media’s evolving treatment of Ukraine" by Ecaterina Locoman and Richard R Lau examines state-run TV narratives from the 2013 Euromaidan, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the periods leading up to and after the 2022 invasion.

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"A fragile narrative: Transformations and consistency in the Russian representation of the war in Ukraine" by Intigam Mamedov looks at core transformations in the Russian narrative of the war in Ukraine.

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"Moral framing in Ukraine war coverage" by John H Parmelee, Nataliya Roman and Berrin Beasley uses computational methods to explore the moral framing of the war.

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"Digitally witnessable war from pereklychka to propaganda: Unfolding Telegram communication during Russia’s war in Ukraine" by Miglė Bareikytė and Mykola Makhortykh explores practices of digital witnessing in platform communities.

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"The effects of the war in Ukraine on the environment of Ukrainian artists: An evaluation by a diagnostic survey" by Józef Ober, Serhii Rusakov and Tetiana Matusevych explores the socioeconomic and cultural challenges facing artists in conflict-affected areas.

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"Framing NATO in China during the 2022 war in Ukraine" by Shixin Ivy Zhang, Zixiu Liu and Altman Yuzhu Peng explores how NATO is presented to Chinese audiences.

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"Personalized, war and peace journalism on Twitter: The Russo-Ukrainian War through the lens of political journalists" by Nina Fabiola Schumacher, Kristin Shi-Kupfer and Christian Nuernbergk looks at the coverage of the war by German political journalists and correspondents.

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"Can encryption save lives? Secure messaging and its infrastructure as loci of convergence between cyber warfare and conventional warfare: The case of Ukraine" by Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani revisit debates about the value of encryption in the context of Ukraine.

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"Media coverage of the Russo–Ukraine war beyond the West: Geopolitics and mainstream news in Brazil, India and South Africa" by Antal Wozniak, Zixiu Liu and Fabienne Lind looks at coverage of the conflict in countries outside of the typical Western news markets.

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"Transformation of a war journalist profession: The case of the full-scale Russo–Ukrainian conflict" by Agnieszka Węglińska, Aleksandra Seklecka, Wojciech Peszyński and Bogusław Węgliński looks at changes in the technologies used by Ukrainian journalists.

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"Surrendering to ‘too powerful’ technologies: From the F-111 to the MQ-28 Ghost-Bat drone" by Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox discusses the airborne drone in relation to concepts of surrender.
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A commentary by Yair Galily, "Balancing national solidarity and journalistic independence in the social media era: The rally-around-the-flag phenomenon among Israeli journalists during the 2024 Gaza war" explores some of the factors impeding Israeli coverage of Gaza.

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"‘Talkin’ ’bout a revolution’? The strategic narratives of the Syrian Democratic Council" by Edoardo Corradi looks at the strategic narratives of the SDC as an example of how non-state actors develop their foreign policy.

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"Space power governance, war and diplomacy: The new challenge for states" by Giacinto D’Urso and Giorgio Giosafatto offers a concept of 'Space Power' as a novel domain of competition.

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Please submit a 250 word abstract complete with author and contact information to akil.awan@rhul.ac.uk by 23 June 2025.

Selected papers from the symposium will be invited to contribute to a special issue, provisionally agreed with the Q1 Sage journal, Media, War & Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social