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Sousveillance, media and strategic political communication: Iraq, USA, UK

This 95,000 word monograph should be double-weighted because it involved: generating an extensive thesis regarding sousveillance and strategic political communication, examining how, across seven years, emergent web-based participatory media shapes, and responds to, different media and political environments across two western and one eastern country, encompassing war, regime change, democratization and nation-building; using primary sources including complex multi-modal media texts and difficult-to-access military and political sources given contemporary censorship; and a lengthy data-collection period (2003–09) to capture diverse primary sources including live broadcasts of Iraq’s invasion, to documentation released under Obama’s administration following Freedom of Information Act requests.