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[ecrea] New book announcement: Digital Militarism

Wed Mar 11 21:30:24 GMT 2015




I am delighted to announce my new book (co-authored with Rebecca L. Stein), coming out next month from Stanford University Press. Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23022 The book would be of interest to those working in the field of social media, digital politics, militarism, conflict and colonialism, Middle Easter studies, anthropology, sociology, politics, and media and cultural studies

Discount flyers for pre-orders are available here https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/

Best wishes

Adi Kuntsman

Israel's occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world's most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens.

Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global context—both the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupation's impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.



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Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Lecturer in Digital Media
Department of Languages, Information and Communications
Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton, Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL
Tel: ++44-(0)-161-2476165

https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/

New book: Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age (with Rebecca L. Stein, Stanford U Press, 2015)


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