Researching “Digital War”: terminological snares, conceptual pitfalls, and methodological hazards
Bousquet, Antoine (2020) Researching “Digital War”: terminological snares, conceptual pitfalls, and methodological hazards. Digital War 1 , pp. 159-163. ISSN 2662-1983.
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Abstract
This article traces some of the intellectual lines of force concomitant to the constitution of a research field of Digital War. It submits that, while it may serve as a convenient shorthand for information and communication technologies concordant with common parlance, the concept of the “digital” cannot in itself provide a dependable referent for demarcating such an investigative terrain. This consideration raises in turn a series of further conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges for scholars working in this emerging field, among which are the deep history of information technologies and their martial entanglements, the requirements of scientific and technical literacy, and engagement with the philosophy of technology.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | digital, analogue, computer, assemblage, information, martial |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Antoine Bousquet |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2020 14:59 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:05 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41602 |
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