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Sharded War: seeing, not sharing

William Merrin Orcid Logo, Andrew Hoskins

Digital War, Volume: 5, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 115 - 118

Swansea University Author: William Merrin Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1057/s42984-023-00086-5

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The digital maelstrom of images, videos, messages, comments, uploaded via smartphones to Telegram and TikTok and globally remediated, place war today increasingly in plain sight. But visibility is no sign of recognition. Rather, social media shape sharded war, namely that which users experience thro...

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Published in: Digital War
ISSN: 2662-1975 2662-1983
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2024
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