01795nam a22002297a 4500 20260805125957.0 260805s2021 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780522878011 PK-LaUMT 302.30285 FOS-A Foster, Kevin 14797 Anti-social media : conventional militaries in the digital battlespace / Kevin Foster Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2021 274 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Over the past decade the gravitational centre of contemporary conflict has shifted from the physical battlefield to the online battlespace, where the ingenuity of non-state actors has vexed governments and tested their militaries. Devising new architectures of participation, Al Qaeda and ISIS have weaponised social media and empowered their dispersed followers to organise, communicate and dominate the information domain. Kevin Foster shows how conventional militaries in the US, Britain, Israel and Australia have responded to this challenge by integrating social media into their systems and operations, and the organisational and cultural impediments they have confronted. Foster traces each military's social media journey, appraising the strategies, doctrine and policies developed to regulate its management and use. From the ADFA Skype sex scandal to the IDF's sophisticated integration of the real and virtual spaces of war, 'Anti-Social Media' examines the good, the bad and the indifferent in the armed forces' halting advance towards social media competence"--Publisher's description Eng Social media Social media-social aspects 14798 Online social network 14799 BK 141919 141919 0 0 0 0 01 01 2026-08-05 0 302.30285 FOS-A 153883 2026-08-05 13:00:13 2026-08-05 BK