[ecrea] New book announcement: Digital Militarism

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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