Control Room by Jehane Noujaim

breaks down the journalistic process to discover its roots, and perhaps quite alarmingly, its lack of. What have often been described as trusted establishments, dating back countless generations or even centuries are exposed as mass instruments of control. The book could be described as an investigation, as journalist Nick Davies interviews various other journalists and documentarians, asking them hard hitting questions about their craft and its downfalls, in an effort to uncover what he describes

Although security is a common need, the process of securitization remains a highly contested concept across socio-economic and political spectrums. Literature, from multimedia to scholarly publications, have aligned securitization with Carl Schmitt and Michel Foucault’s analyses of sovereign power as being founded on the subjects’ fear of the state, and as relying on governmentality, respectively. Ole Waever’s work with the Copenhagen School in analyzing the mobilization of a political issue to a