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Digital war : a critical introduction / William Merrin.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2019Description: xi, 308 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138899872 (pbk.)
  • 9781138899865 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • U163 .M398 2019
Contents:
Introduction: a new field -- Top-down war: broadcasting conflict in the 1990s -- Non-war and virtual war: theorizing conflict in the 1990s -- Informational and networked war: remaking conflict in the 1990s -- The War on Terror: Reporting 9/11 and Afghanistan -- Shock and Awe: reporting the Iraq War -- From Abu Ghraib to Facebook: the end of military informational control -- Transparent war: the Wikileaks "war logs" -- Drone war: telepresent assassination -- Ambient war: cyberwar everywhere -- #participativewar: social media in Gaza and Syria -- Viral war: Islamic State's digital terror -- Augmented war: wearables, phones, soldier-systems, AR, simulations, sensors, exo-skeletons and BCI -- Algorithmic war: the A.I. and robotic RMA -- Conclusion: the clouds of war.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة U163 .M398 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 30030000003759

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a new field -- Top-down war: broadcasting conflict in the 1990s -- Non-war and virtual war: theorizing conflict in the 1990s -- Informational and networked war: remaking conflict in the 1990s -- The War on Terror: Reporting 9/11 and Afghanistan -- Shock and Awe: reporting the Iraq War -- From Abu Ghraib to Facebook: the end of military informational control -- Transparent war: the Wikileaks "war logs" -- Drone war: telepresent assassination -- Ambient war: cyberwar everywhere -- #participativewar: social media in Gaza and Syria -- Viral war: Islamic State's digital terror -- Augmented war: wearables, phones, soldier-systems, AR, simulations, sensors, exo-skeletons and BCI -- Algorithmic war: the A.I. and robotic RMA -- Conclusion: the clouds of war.

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