Photographic Warfare: Isis, Egypt, and the Online Battle for Sinai

by Kareem El Damanhoury

Book Overview

Photographic Warfare explores the processes of visual contestation at work in the competing official media campaigns of state forces and militant, nonstate actors in the online environment. Islamist and far-right militant groups are increasingly weaponizing their visual media by displaying their actions--beheadings, trainings, fighting on the battlefield, services provision to locals, and so on-- as spectacles that circulate around the globe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820361631
• ISBN13: 9780820361635
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"