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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796905203321

Autore

Kuntsman Adi

Titolo

Digital Militarism : Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age / / Adi Kuntsman, Rebecca L. Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020]

©2015

ISBN

0-8047-9497-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Disciplina

956.9405

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict -- Mass media and the conflict

Israel -- Armed Forces -- Gaza Strip

Israel -- Armed Forces -- West Bank

Israel-Arab War, 1967 -- Occupied territories

Militarism -- Israel

Social media -- Political aspects -- Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. When Instagram Went to War -- 2. “Another War Zone” -- 3. Anatomy of a Facebook Scandal -- 4. Palestinians Who Never Die -- 5. Selfie Militarism -- Afterword: #Revenge -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.