Digital Warfare - by Nadia Zasanska & Nadiya Ivanenko (Paperback)

About the Book

In the digital era, who do you become when war breaks out in your own country? Self-perception in digital spaces, with digital tools and digital minds during the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Book Synopsis

Digital media and technologies remain unpredictable when we approach them as actors in armed conflicts. Artificial intelligence, drones, information leaks, hacking, propaganda and fakes become part of war reality. The contributors to this volume prompt us to focus on the virtual fronts of the Russo-Ukrainian War, examining the agency of an individual, community and society in the digitalized war reality. This collection illustrates how digital spaces empower society to stay resilient, resist Russia's aggression and defend democratic values in times of adversity and severe trials.

Review Quotes

»A much-welcomed new volume. It provides insight into how technology is once again changing warfare. Brought together in this volume are scholars from around the world presenting their cutting-edge research on topics that many are interested in but lack expertise to fully understand. This book explains both Russia - Ukraine and war in new ways.«-- "Marta Dyczok, Ass. Professor, Dept. of History and Political Science, Western University, Canada"

»This timely volume breaks new ground by bringing into conversation media studies and war studies to explore the complexities and ambiguities of digital warfare. Training their sights on the Russia-Ukraine War, the contributors investigate the many ways in which digital war challenges our ability to draw neat boundaries between military and civilians, participation and observation, technology and humanity. The result is a collection of empirically rich and theoretically diverse analyses of a conflict that is both intractable and constantly evolving.«-- "Prof. Nadia Kaneva, Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies, University of Denver, USA"

»This volume illuminates a crucial but understudied front in Ukraine's struggle against Russian aggression - how communications technologies and digital output shapes the information environment and narratives within the states at war. Through fascinating original research, the contributions reveal how Russian information operations seek to exploit different platforms and user communities and how Ukraine has resisted this through its own inventive use of the digital domain. This is a significant collection for scholars and policy-makers wishing to understand both modern digital conflict and the importance of social resilience against Russian propaganda.«-- "Prof. Roy Allison, Russia and Eurasian International Relations, University of Oxford"

»Whatever the label - Digital Warfare, Information War, Political Technology, Political Warfare - this is a ground-breaking study of Russian aggression against Ukraine in all of its forms. And of Ukrainian digital resistance in response.«-- "Prof. Andrew Wilson, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London"

About the Author

Nadia Zasanska (Edited by)
Nadia Zasanska (Dr) is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Her interests involve digital religion, media studies, and religious studies.

Nadiya Ivanenko (Edited by)
Nadiya Ivanenko is a visiting research academic at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. She has taught and published intensively on the topics related to higher education, civic education, citizenship linguistics and TEFL. She has been actively engaged with the work of civil society organizations in Ukraine and is the chairperson of the English-Speaking Union Ukraine.