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This book examines the digital explosion that has ripped across the
battlefield, weaponising our attention and making everyone a
participant in wars without end. 'Smart' devices, apps, archives
and algorithms remove the bystander from war, collapsing the
distinctions between audience and actor, soldier and civilian,
media and weapon. This has ruptured our capacity to make sense of
war. Now we are all either victims or perpetrators. In 'Radical
War', Ford and Hoskins reveal how contemporary war is legitimised,
planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a
continuous and connected way, through digitally saturated fields of
perception. Plotting the emerging relationship between data,
attention and the power to control war, the authors chart the
complex digital and human interdependencies that sustain political
violence today. Through a unique, interdisciplinary lens, they map
our disjointed experiences of conflict and illuminate this
dystopian new ecology of war.
Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize
individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it,
bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these
paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through
today's technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions.
Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda
that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and
memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the
digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity,
archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses
and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics,
including television, videogames and social media, and memory
institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.
This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse
by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or
hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a
new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there
appears to be emerging threats to security and stability in the
shape of individuals and groups holding or espousing radical views
about religion, ideology, often represented in the media as
oppositional to Western values. This book asks what, if anything is
new about these radicalising discourses, how and why they relate to
political acts of violence and terror, and what the role of the
mass media is in promoting or hindering them. This includes
exploring how the acts themselves and explanations for them on the
web are picked up and represented in mainstream television news
media or Big Media, through the journalistic and editorial uses of
words, phrases, graphics, images, and videos. It analyses how
interpretations of the term 'radicalisation' are shaped by news
representations through investigating audience responses,
understandings and misunderstandings. Transnational in scope, this
book seeks to contribute to an understanding of the connectivity
and relationships that make up the new media ecology, especially
those that appear to transcend the local and the global, accelerate
the dissemination of radicalising discourses, and amplify
media/public fears of political violence. This book will be of
interest to students of security studies, media studies, terrorism
studies, political science and sociology.
This book examines the circulation and effects of radical discourse
by analysing the role of mass media coverage in promoting or
hindering radicalisation and acts of political violence. There is a
new environment of conflict in the post-9/11 age, in which there
appears to be emerging threats to security and stability in the
shape of individuals and groups holding or espousing radical views
about religion, ideology, often represented in the media as
oppositional to Western values. This book asks what, if anything is
new about these radicalising discourses, how and why they relate to
political acts of violence and terror, and what the role of the
mass media is in promoting or hindering them. This includes
exploring how the acts themselves and explanations for them on the
web are picked up and represented in mainstream television news
media or Big Media, through the journalistic and editorial uses of
words, phrases, graphics, images, and videos. It analyses how
interpretations of the term 'radicalisation' are shaped by news
representations through investigating audience responses,
understandings and misunderstandings. Transnational in scope, this
book seeks to contribute to an understanding of the connectivity
and relationships that make up the new media ecology, especially
those that appear to transcend the local and the global, accelerate
the dissemination of radicalising discourses, and amplify
media/public fears of political violence. This book will be of
interest to students of security studies, media studies, terrorism
studies, political science and sociology.
Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize
individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it,
bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these
paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through
today's technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions.
Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda
that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and
memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the
digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity,
archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses
and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics,
including television, videogames and social media, and memory
institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.
The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to
catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there
seemed to be a new de-synchronicity - a huge reality gap - between
the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media's
interpretations of and reporting of contemporary events. Through a
series of short, sharp interventions from academics and
journalists, this book interrogates the emergent media war around
Donald Trump. A series of interconnected themes are used to set an
agenda for exploration of Trump as the lynch-pin in the fall of the
liberal mainstream and the rise of the right media mainstream in
the USA. By exploring topics such as Trump's television celebrity,
his presidential candidacy and data-driven election campaign, his
use of social media, his press conferences and combative
relationship with the mainstream media, and the question of 'fake
news' and his administration's defence of 'alternative facts', the
contributors rally together to map the parallels of the seemingly
momentous and continuing shifts in the wider relationship between
media and politics.
Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three
paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and
connectivity theory, to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk
events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a
neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security. Hoskins and
Tulloch argue that hyperconnectivity is both a conduit of risk and
a form of risk in itself, and that it alters the ways in which we
experience events and remember them. Through interdisciplinary
dialogue and case study analysis they offer original perspectives
on the key questions of risk of our age, including: What is the
path to a 'balance' between individual privacy and state (or
corporate) security? Is hyperconnectivity itself a new risk
condition of our time? How do remembering and forgetting shape
citizen insecurity and cultures of risk, and legitimize neoliberal
governance? How do journalists operate as 'public intellectuals' of
risk? Through probing a series of risk events that have already
scarred the twenty-first century, Hoskins and Tulloch show how both
established and emergent media are central in shaping past, present
and future horizons of neoliberalism, while also propelling wide
pressure for its alternatives on those ranging from economics
students worldwide to potential political leaders cultivated by
austerity policies.
Our relationship with the past-whether judgment, celebration,
commemoration or denial--has become an important part of public
culture. This book explores the relationship between televisual
communication and memory--focusing on the conflicts that have
disrupted and changed our world over the past 50 years--with
particular reference to the current war in Iraq. Case studies cover
the Holocaust, Vietnam, both Gulf Wars and Kosovo. Though the
Vietnam War was extensively televised, it was framed within a
domestic U.S. context. By the time of the latest Gulf War and
Kosovo the coverage of warfare was both more immediate and more
global. Hoskins illustrates this with a comparative critique of
individual countries' national media framing of war (including
Middle Eastern perspectives) in contrast to the so-called "global"
viewpoint of satellite news networks such as CNN. Televising War
examines the intertwining of self, society and media that
influences our understanding of both past and present.
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