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# War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

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## Customer Reviews

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    The birth of home digitalis
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2019*

This is a fascinating book. Events are written about clearly and with sufficient detail.I really enjoy the wider analysis how news reporting is changing in digital age. I highly recommend this book.

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    How the new war is being waged upon and by us, whether we wish it or not
  

*by R***I on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2018*

This book could not be more relevant in the world of cyber warfare, social media warriors and understanding the power and pitfalls of citizen journalism to Facebook warriors; from how bedrooms are turned into modern Battlefields to how both recruitment to terror and countering terrorism takes place in the modern cyberworld.As the author concludes "Our information environment is sick. We live in a world where facts are less important than narratives, where people emote rather than debate, and where algorithms shape our view of the world." With everything going on in the world today, ISIS recruitment, disinformation warfare, Kremlin election interference, Facebook being manipulated into helping darker parts of our world, this couldn't be more relevant to, well everyone to read and understand their direct and indirect cyber foot print.

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    Original and profound
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2017*

This is a book that, unlike its title, will survive the test of time.Author David Patrikarakos is not only an intrepid journalist, but also an original thinker.  He lectures you a whole lot and tends to hang on to the points he makes for far too long, but you forgive him, because he takes you places others haven’t.  Literally and figuratively.There are many themes here, of which the following struck me the most:First on propaganda,• once upon a time, the states were in 100% in command of the narrative; today they decidedly aren’t• it’s not old media versus new media; rather, it’s about how you can create feedback between the two• propaganda was once aimed at the civilian population of the enemy; today it’s aimed at the whole worldThe point is also made that in a world of fixed borders –Crimea notwithstanding—the aim of war is often to send a message.  The order of events no longer is 1. win on the battlefield 2. get your way with the arrangements for peace.  The dynamic has been reversed.Second, on military operations,• in the case of procurement, social media can 100% act as an unofficial branch of the military• for recruitment, social media trumps all previous technology• for intelligence, the free information on the web, properly harnessed by networked civilians, has repeatedly been proven to be superior to traditional military intelligenceThe author does not talk in bulletpoints.  Instead, you follow him on a breathless and occasionally perilous tour of the battlefield, virtual or otherwise.  He starts with a charming teenager in Gaza, moves on swiftly to the headquarters of her competition at the IDF, from there to a vigilante housewife who privately crowdsources and personally arranges for the delivery of supplies and military equipment the Ukrainian military, takes part in a delivery himself, moves on from there to St. Petersburg to interview a professional troll, introduces you to the crowdsourced forensic evidence regarding the downing of MH17 and interviews a mom who joined ISIS in Raqqa and lived to tell.And he caps it all off with a tremendous concluding chapter, which ties all the strands together and could stand alone as some of the most compelling reading I’ve ever had the pleasure to enjoy.  It’s cliché, but the conclusion alone is worth the price of purchase.  Start with that, I say.How does it compare with Zeynep Tufekci’s epic “Twitter and Teargas?”  I loved it (him?) less, but it taught me more.

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