[Commlist] New Journal Announcement: Digital War

We are delighted to announce the launch of an innovative, 
interdisciplinary new journal: /The Journal of Digital War/

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Editors-in-Chief: Prof. Andrew Hoskins (Social Sciences, Glasgow 
University) and Dr. William Merrin (Media Studies, Swansea University).


Website:https://www.digital-war.org <https://www.digital-war.org/>


Follow us on Twitter: @DigitalWarJnl


/The Journal of Digital War/ will be published three times a year by 
Palgrave Springer and the call for submissions will go live in Spring 2019.


Digital War is understood as the ways in which digital technologies and 
media are transforming how wars are fought, experienced, lived, 
represented, reported, known, conceptualised, remembered and forgotten.


This is an emerging field whose importance is increasingly recognised 
and which has had a significant impact upon all aspects of contemporary 
politics, society and culture. It is a field that is global in nature, 
highly sensitive to contemporary developments and interested in ongoing 
technological changes and their impact.


Digital War will be A4 in format and will include a significant number 
of original images.


The journal brings together*key, intersecting subjects *including:

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*Media and Journalism*: digital war reporting, photojournalism and 
film-making; social media and war, including their use by governments, 
militaries, soldiers and civilians; the role of technologies such as the 
smartphone and apps; the public experience of and participation in 
warfare; Wikileaks and leaking; fake news (intentional and unintentional 
spreading); digital imagery and graphics.

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*Military Technologies and Computing*: digital technologies, systems and 
weaponry; drones (and other unmanned systems); Cybersecurity; Cyberwar; 
Informational warfare, propaganda, and Psyops; electronic warfare; 
intelligence and counter-insurgency (COIN); military use of simulations, 
virtual reality and augmented reality; wearable technologies, cyborg 
enhancements and ‘smart’ weaponry; posthumanism; artificial intelligence 
(A.I.); robotics and lethal autonomous systems; and other emergent 
technologies with military implications such as nanotechnology.**

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*Art*: political, aesthetic, critical, legal, ethical, experimental, 
algorithmic and multimedia interventions in war and conflict.

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*War Studies*: including the theorization of war and position papers on 
contemporary war and the future of warfare and its challenges, including 
training, preparedness and doctrine.

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*Politics and IR*: key issues around terrorism and digital technologies; 
surveillance and preventative measures; cybersecurity and the critical 
infrastructure; digital civil wars and protests; the role of hackers and 
‘hacktivist’ groups such as Anonymous; ‘weaponization’, namely that 
transformed from something that has no prior political-military purpose; 
4chan, trolling and emergence of political troll-warfare.

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*Social and Cultural Studies*: popular representation of digital war in 
videogames and science-fiction; politics of the digital versus the 
politics of the analogue; the means of connection/disconnection between 
digital and non or extra digitalized practices of warfare.

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*Geography*: regional issues around warfare; global war; spatial 
experience and control; the temporalities of warfare; decolonial/digital 
coloniality debates.

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*Law*: Representations of conflict within the legal frameworks of 
international law; new forms of evidence gathering and war crime 
documentation; human rights; forensic architecture.

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*Memory and History*: issues around digitalisation; digital and 
organizational remembering and forgetting; education; museums and the 
archives of war; digital curation; battlefield archaeology; military and 
public records; commemoration and memorialization in videogames and 
interactive media, and access and searching.

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*Media Archaeology*: the historical and material genealogy of the 
digital in previous mediatic platforms and power/knowledge apparatuses.


The website includes news of upcoming events, as well as a blog.


The first post is by William Merrin on ‘The UK’s Plans for Drone 
Squadrons: What Does Gavin Williamson Mean?’ 
at,https://www.digital-war.org/blog/2019/2/13/the-uks-plans-for-drone-swarm-squadrons-what-does-gavin-williamson-mean-by-william-merrin

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