From bulletins to bullets to blogs and beyond: The Karen’s ongoing communication war

GREEN, Geff (2016). From bulletins to bullets to blogs and beyond: The Karen’s ongoing communication war. In: KARATZOGIANNI, A, NGUYEN, D and SERAFINELLI, E, (eds.) The digital transformation of the public sphere: conflict, migration, crisis and culture in digital networks. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 61-82.

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Abstract

Geff Green focuses on the communication approaches taken by the Karen communities displaced from Burma and who live in diaspora. Apparent control and empowerment provided by new technologies may be illusive. When using media for warfare or perhaps for more innocuous public relations purposes, activists may actually create ‘ammunition’ for opponents. Targeted attacks on specific communities or ‘audiences’ have a high impact by reifying discourse in a devastating way by connecting to lived experience in the victims

Item Type:	Book Section
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Art and Design Research Centre
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_4
Page Range:	61-82
Depositing User:	Geff Green
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2015 08:19
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 02:56
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10428

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