Adi Kuntsman, Rebecca L. Stein

Digital Militarism

Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Digital Militarism considers how social media has become a crucial site in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.

Produktdetails

• Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9780804794909
• ISBN-10: 0804794901
• Artikelnr.: 41754093

Autorenporträt

Adi Kuntsman is Lecturer in Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, and author of Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond (2009). Rebecca L. Stein is the Nicholas J. & Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
1When Instagram Went to War: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age
chapter abstract
This chapter provides the historical and theoretical parameters of the
book, defining the term "digital militarism" and outlining the ways it has
changed during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It
sketches the relationship between the changing Israeli political playfield
of these years and the growth of the national culture in social networking
and digital literacy. Through a focus on the Instagram accounts of Israeli
soldiers during Israel's 2012 assault on the Gaza Strip, the chapter
studies the ordinary ways that patriotic militarism can be translated into
social media grammars (e.g., selfies, hashtags, "likes").
2"Another War Zone": The Development of Digital Militarism
chapter abstract
This chapter traces the growth of digital militarism in the first two
decades of the twenty-first century, chiefly the ways that social media
have been incorporated into the toolbox of the Israeli state during times
of war and military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories. It
focuses on the use of social media by numerous Israeli and pro-Israeli
actors - civilians and military users - during two Israeli military
assaults on the Gaza Strip (2008-9 and 2012), and during the Flotilla
affair of 2010. The chapter also traces the rise of personalized militarism
by means of social media and the ways it functions to obscure and excuse
Israeli violence.
3Anatomy of a Facebook Scandal: Social Media as Alibi
chapter abstract
This chapter focuses on a landmark case in the history of digital
militarism: the 2010 exposure of a Facebook album of former Israeli soldier
Eden Abergil, containing her joyful self-portraits with bound and
blindfolded Palestinian detainees. The chapter traces the social life of
this scandal, with a focus on the varying strategies used by Israeli
publics to manage the event's dangerous virality by turning away from
matters of military occupation onto questions of social media.
4Palestinians Who Never Die: The Politics of Digital Suspicion
chapter abstract
This chapter studies the digital doctoring charges that proliferated on
Israeli social networks during the 2012 Israeli incursion into the Gaza
Strip. Israeli social media users took aim at images of Palestinian dead
and injured, using digital forensics and everyday modes of what we term
"digital suspicion" to assert forgery claims. This is a study of the ways
that Israeli and pro-Israeli social media users have employed doctoring
charges as a tool of digital militarism. This study is framed within the
much longer history of Israeli suspicion of Palestinian political claims
and associated evidence.
5Selfie Militarism: The Normalization of Digital Militarism
chapter abstract
The book's final chapter reflects on the development of Israeli digital
militarism from 2008 to 2014, tracking key shifts in this formulation. It
focuses on the changing ways that soldiers have used selfies-the popular
genre of mobile self-portraiture, images shared on photo-sharing platforms
such as Instagram-to document their experience of life in the Israeli armed
forces. The chapter proposes that digital militarism began as an aberrant
phenomenon, the activity of marginalized Israeli youth, and has since
become an ordinary Israeli practice, an everyday way of living with and
representing Israeli military rule.