Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria - Couverture rigide

Della Ratta, Donatella

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745337155 ISBN 13 : 9780745337159

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2018

Synopsis

From ISIS propaganda videos to popular regime-backed TV series and digital activism, the Syrian conflict has been dramatically affected by the production of media, at the same time generating in its turn an impressive visual culture. Yet what are the aesthetic, political and material implications of the collusion between the production of this sheer amount of visual media being continuously shared and re-manipulated on the Internet, and the performance of the conflict on the ground? This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Della Rattas analysis exposes the dark side of online practices, where visual regimes of representation and media production dramatically intertwine with modes of destruction and the performance of violence. Exploring the most socially-mediated conflict of contemporary times, the book offers a fascinating insight into the transformation of warfare and life in the age of the internet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Donatella Della Ratta is a writer specialising in media and visual cultures in Syria. She is the author of author of Shooting a Revolution (Pluto, 2018) and co-editor of Arab Media Moguls (IB Tauris, 2015). She has curated international exhibitions on art and cinema in Syria.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0745337155
• ISBN 13: 9780745337159
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible