Digital Culture & Society (DCS) - Vol. 10, Issue 1/2024 - Digital War: Media Strategies and Visual Politics during the Full-Scale Attack of Russia on Ukraine

Since the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, warfare on social media and online platforms has introduced a new way of mediatizing war. A constant war-related newsfeed on social media and online platforms has emerged. Against this background the war in Ukraine represents a »fractal war - where you choose to subscribe to your own tailored version of warfare in your feed. This makes it the most personalized war in history« (Andrew Hoskins). This special issue investigates smartphone use, online media, platform politics, and the impact of the crowdsourced war. New forms of digital participation, collective witnessing and web archiving by media users and media providers are linked with new methodological and empirical challenges for source analysis of digital forensics, jurisdiction, and collective memory. The contributors analyze digital society and its relationship to war, violence, genocide, witnessing practices, and cultural appropriation in a critical and reflective manner.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anna Näslund (Editor), Reichert (Editor), Ramón Reichert (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2025
• EAN: 9783837668681
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6868-1
• No. of pages: 162
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Illustrations: 30 SW-Abb., 17 Farbabb.
• Series: Digital Culture & Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Pädagogik, Internet, Propaganda, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Photography & photographs, Education, Architecture, Media, Media Studies, Media Theory, Sociology, Popular Culture, Journal, Digital Media, Society, Sociology of Media, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, Television, War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social interaction, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, Decorative arts, Social & cultural history, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, DESIGN / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Knowledge, Communities, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, Political structure & processes, Industrial / commercial art & design, Literary studies: general, Philosophy & theory of education, Design, industrielle und kommerzielle Kunst, Illustration, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Urban communities, TV & society, Sociology and anthropology, Electronic, holographic & video art, Film Theory & Criticism, Drawing and drawings, Media Strategy, Visual Politics, Philosophy and psychology, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, The political process, Political science (Politics and government), Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, History, geographic treatment, biography, Data processing and computer science, Public performances, Computer art (Digital art), Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography