Anti-Social Media : Conventional Militaries in the Digital Battlespace / Kevin Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Anti-Social Media

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the past decade the gravitational centre 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 weaponised social media and empowered their dispersed followers to organise, communicate and dominate the information domain. Kevin Foster shows how conventional militaries in the US, Britain, Israel and Australia have responded to this challenge by integrating social media into their systems and operations, and the organisational and cultural impediments they have confronted. Foster traces each military's social media journey, appraising the strategies, doctrine and policies developed to regulate its management and use. From the ADFA Skype sex scandal to the IDF's sophisticated integration of the real and virtual spaces of war, Anti-Social Media examines the good, the bad and the indifferent in the armed forces' halting advance towards social media competence.

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'.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780522878028

0522878024

OCLC:

1450103328