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Shooting a Revolution - Visual Media and Warfare in Syria (Paperback) Loot Price: R634
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Shooting a Revolution - Visual Media and Warfare in Syria (Paperback): Donatella Della Ratta

Shooting a Revolution - Visual Media and Warfare in Syria (Paperback)

Donatella Della Ratta

Series: Digital Barricades

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From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture. Yet what are the aesthetic, political and material implications of the collusion between the production of this sheer amount of visual media being continuously shared and re-manipulated on the Internet, and the performance of the conflict on the ground? This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Della Ratta's analysis exposes the dark side of online practices, where visual regimes of representation and media production dramatically intertwine with modes of destruction and the performance of violence. Exploring the most socially-mediated conflict of contemporary times, the book offers a fascinating insight into the transformation of warfare and life in the age of the internet.

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Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Digital Barricades
Release date: November 2018
Authors: Donatella Della Ratta
Dimensions: 215 x 135 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3714-2
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
LSN: 0-7453-3714-7
Barcode: 9780745337142

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