TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Damanhoury El,Kareem
TI  - Photographic warfare: ISIS, Egypt, and the online battle for Sinai 
T2  - Studies in security and international affairs
SN  - 9780820361628
AV  - DT137.S55 . D36 2022
U1  - 953/.1 23/eng/20220401
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - IS (Organization)
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Sinai
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Terrorism and mass media
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Psychological warfare
KW  - Sinai (Egypt)
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index; Introduction : State and Non-state Actors' Visual Arsenals -- Contextualizing the Sinai Conflict -- The Military-Photography Nexus -- The Visual Framing Battle --The Visual Semiotic Battle -- An Analytic Framework of Visual Contestation
N2  - "Photographic Warfare explores the processes of visual contestation at work in the competing official media campaigns of state forces and militant, nonstate actors in the online environment. Islamist and far-right militant groups are increasingly weaponizing their visual media by displaying their actions-beheadings, trainings, fighting on the battlefield, services provision to locals, and so on- as spectacles that circulate around the globe to challenge statebased media messaging and policy agendas. In response, numerous states and coalitions have expanded their online media presence to counter such threats. Using the conflict between ISIS and the Egyptian state over the Sinai Peninsula as a case study, Kareem El Damanhoury introduces an analytical framework of visual contestation to guide future studies of competing visual media campaigns in the online environment. The proposed model provides a rubric for dissecting and understanding contemporary photographic warfare using visual framing, semiotic analysis, contextual interpretations, and comparative applications. Photographic Warfare further emphasizes the many situational factors that influence visual output and content, including militant attacks, counterterrorism operations, loss of leaders, and introduction of new groups into the battlefield"--
ER  -