Description
A timely and original contribution essential to understanding how global media, elite power, and artificial intelligence converge to reshape narratives of international relations and diplomacy, global security, and humanitarian action. This book examines the complex and often troubling relationship between U.S. and global media systems driven by elite ownership structures, and their outsized influence on international relations, conflicts and war, and the shifting narratives that shape global security and humanitarian action. In this book, Purnaka L. de Silva presents the new digital media ecosystem currently helping shape narratives about how global security is conceived and carried out and how this system has a great impact on issues of war and peace, international relations and diplomacy, trade and commerce, and has the ability to manipulate financial markets that may play a significant role in humanitarian emergencies. This book provides an integrated, interdisciplinary analysis, bridging media studies, international relations, critical AI studies, and humanitarian studies and articulates a 21st-century theory of media power rooted in billionaire ownership, algorithmic mediation, and cognitive manipulation that has increasingly dangerous and problematic applications. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers interested in global politics, foreign policy, artificial intelligence, and democracy in the era of AI platform media.