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Introduction -- The Utility Of Goffman -- Researching The British Military -- Outline Of The Chapters -- What Is Media Operations -- The Aims Of Media Operations -- Media Operations As Influencing Activity -- Media Operations As Public Relations -- Media Operations As Responsive -- Media Operations: An Interactionist Perspective -- Impression Management And The Institutional Self -- Shaping The Environment: The Military Contribution -- Audiences: Imagining And Influencing -- Audience Groups -- Generating Audience Responses -- Defining War: Control Moves -- Linguistic, Visual And Narrative Control Moves -- Strategies And Techniques -- Defining War: Strategic Interaction -- Tacit Definitions -- Competing Definitions -- Performing War: Bounded Impression Management -- The Information System -- Bounded Impression Management -- Performing War: Distanciated Impression Management -- Intended Observed Actions -- Unavoidably Observable Actions -- Heightened Visibility: The Military Contribution -- The Uncovering Perception Of The Media -- Impression Management And Mediatized War: -- Negotiating The Front Line -- Mediatized War -- Media Logic, Military Logic -- Strategic Interaction -- The Active Imagined Audience -- Impression Management And Mediatized Wars. Sarah Maltby. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [120]-127) And Index.