Anti-social media : conventional militaries in the digital battlespace /
Over the past decade the gravitational center of contemporary conflict has shifted from the physical battlefield to the online battlespace, where the ingenuity of non-state actors has vexed governments and tested their militaries. Devising new architectures of participation, Al Qaeda and ISIS have w...
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Carlton, Victoria :
Melbourne University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the changed face of war
- Part I. From full-spectrum dominance to information operations
- 1. Who killed the pony express? Gulf War 1
- 2. The information bomb: Somalia and Kosovo
- 3. Spectatorial alignment: Gulf War 2
- 4. New architectures of participation
- Part II. Command and control meets the decentred network
- 5. 'Shooting behind the target': the US military's long march to social media competence
- 6. 'Psy-oping the home team': the British Army targets its own
- 'It can't be done by forty-year olds': online conscription, mission command and the Israel Defense Forces
- 'Full disclosure. I hate social media': the Australian Army invades Facebook
- Conclusion: 'everybody wants to do social media.'