Publisher: Springer Link
Language: English
The Journal of Digital War provides a vital and dynamic interdisciplinary forum for cutting-edge analysis of developments in contemporary warfare, critically explores the political, social and cultural importance of digital war and agenda-setting in a digital environment, and probes the question of what war means today and how it will develop in the future through academic as well as theoretical, polemical and speculative interventions and responses.
The aim of this journal is to critically explore what war means today and how it will develop in the future. As using the title ‘Digital War’ demonstrates, the focus is not to identify a new form of war but an entire emergent research field. Digital War provides an interdisciplinary forum for cutting-edge analysis of contemporary warfare, unifying researchers and knowledge from media studies, politics and IR, cybersecurity, the military, art, library and information studies, geography, and cultural studies as well as from political and technological commentators. It will be driven ultimately by quality scholarship, but rather than being restricted to publishing exclusive and narrow academic work, it will provoke and welcome a range of interventions and responses, including theoretical, polemical and speculative pieces from experts in their field. The aim is not only to be the intellectual centre of debate around contemporary war but also for emerging technological developments and their implications for the future of and as the leading and radical forum for discussions about developments in conflict.
Editors: Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin, Olga Boichak, and Anthony Downey
The journal was launched in 2020 as part of the programme to the exhibition Heba Y. Amin – When I see the future, I close my eyes, curated by Anthony Downey. The launch explored the rapid evolution of our contemporary environment of hypervigilance and the consequences for those targeted by predictive surveillance. Chaired by Andrew Hoskins, the Journal of Digital War was presented by Heba Y. Amin, Anthony Downey, Shona Illingworth and William Merrin and brought together key thinkers from art, visual culture, media studies and sociology. Watch the launch here
Read the article Contesting post-digital futures: drone warfare and the geo-politics of aerial surveillance in the middle east by Heba Y. Amin & Anthony Downey (Journal of Digital War, Issue I, 2020).
