Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone

by Lisa Ellen Silvestri

Book Overview

For most of us, clicking "like" on social media has become fairly routine. For a Marine, clicking "like" from the battlefield lets his social network know he's alive. This is the first time in the history of modern warfare that US troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home. Lisa Ellen Silvestri's Friended at the Front documents the revolutionary change in the way we communicate across fronts. Social media, Silvestri...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700621369
• ISBN13: 9780700621361
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"