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Author:

Della Ratta, Donatella, 1973- author.

Title:

Shooting a revolution : visual media and warfare in Syria / Donatella Della Ratta.

Publisher:

Pluto Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 251 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Civil War (Syria : 2011-)
Mass media and war--Syria.
Mass media and culture--Syria.
Syria--Mass media and the war.--Civil War, 2011---Mass media and the war.
Mass media and culture.
Mass media and war.
Syria.
2011
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-248) and index.

Contents:

List of Illustrations; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Transliteration; Glossary; Introduction; 1. Making Media, Making the Nation: Syria's Tanwir in Neoliberal Times; 2. The Whisper Strategy; 3. The Death of Tanwir in Real-Time Drama; 4. The People's 'Raised Hands'; 5. Fear and Loathing on the Internet: The Paradoxes of Arab Networked Activism; 6. Screen Fighters: Filing and Killing in Contemporary Syria; 7. Syria's Image-Makers: Daesh Militants and Non-Violent Activists; 8. Notes on a Theory of Violence and the Visual in the Networked Age; Notes; Bibliography

Series:

Digital barricades : Interventions in digital culture and politics

ISBN:

9780745337159
0745337155
9780745337142
0745337147

OCLC:

(OCoLC)986565197

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)