Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 226-248, index
Series: Digital Barricades
ISBN 978-0-7453-3714-2 (pbk); 9781786801869 (pdf)
Signature commbox: 330:10-Conflicts 2018
"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 Ratta’s 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." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
1 Making Media, Making the Nation: Syria’s Tanwir in Neoliberal Times, 15
2 The Whisper Strategy, 35
3 The Death of Tanwir in Real-Time Drama, 58
4 The People’s ‘Raised Hands’, 79
5 Fear and Loathing on the Internet: The Paradoxes of Arab Networked Activism, 99
6 Screen Fighters: Filming and Killing in Contemporary Syria, 125
7 Syria’s Image-Makers: Daesh Militants and Non-Violent Activists, 149
8 Notes on a Theory of Violence and the Visual in the Networked Age, 179
1 Making Media, Making the Nation: Syria’s Tanwir in Neoliberal Times, 15
2 The Whisper Strategy, 35
3 The Death of Tanwir in Real-Time Drama, 58
4 The People’s ‘Raised Hands’, 79
5 Fear and Loathing on the Internet: The Paradoxes of Arab Networked Activism, 99
6 Screen Fighters: Filming and Killing in Contemporary Syria, 125
7 Syria’s Image-Makers: Daesh Militants and Non-Violent Activists, 149
8 Notes on a Theory of Violence and the Visual in the Networked Age, 179
