Image Warfare in the War on Terror [electronic resource] /
Roger, N.author.
Roger examines how developments in new media technologies, such as the internet, blogs, camera/video phones, have fundamentally altered the way in which governments, militaries, terrorists, NGOs, and citizens engage with images. He argues that there has been a paradigm shift from techno-war to image warfare, which emerged on 9/11.
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Roger examines how developments in new media technologies, such as the internet, blogs, camera/video phones, have fundamentally altered the way in which governments, militaries, terrorists, NGOs, and citizens engage with images. He argues that there has been a paradigm shift from techno-war to image warfare, which emerged on 9/11.
Introduction -- Theorizing image warfare -- Political communications:  Bush, Blair and Bin Laden -- Suicides -- Executions -- Abuses -- Conclusion.
International relations.
Communication.
Political science.
Politics and war.
Sociology.
Computer science.
International Relations.
Media Studies.
Political Science.
Military and Defence Studies.
Sociology, general.
Popular Computer Science.