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Smartphone Guns Shooting Tweets: Killing the “Other” in Palestine

Smartphone Guns Shooting Tweets: Killing the “Other” in Palestine
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Author(s): Ryan Kiggins (University of Central Oklahoma, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 22
Source title: Digital Media Integration for Participatory Democracy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rocci Luppicini (University of Ottawa, Canada)and Rachel Baarda (University of Ottawa, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2463-2.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the increasing use of social media during a 2012 flare up in armed conflict between Hamas and the state of Israel. Through tweet and counter tweet, Israel, Hamas, and digital recruits engage in a duel as lethal to identity as kinetic projectiles. Internet connected devices such as smartphones have become hostile agents through the republishing of social media content. Such devices and social media content have material affects beyond the geographic battlespace. The advent of Internet connected devices and social media content concomitant with their use during armed conflict by hostiles beyond the geographic battlespace suggest that patterns of conflict are rapidly changing calling into question the notion of hostile, hostile acts, and battlespace. In a social media and smartphone saturated era, who and what counts as hostile (people, smartphones, and tweets) is increasingly ambiguous.

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