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Online and imploding on their smartphones

Political-military blowback at the end of the Global War on Terror.

Written by:

Matthew Ford
Domains: Power & Politics, Trade & Communication & Engineering

Launched in 2007, this one device now makes it possible to record events, find work, manage teams, locate ourselves on the planet, upload our experiences to social media, get a mortgage, read the newspaper, order a taxi, rent a holiday home, buy almost anything and get it delivered to our front door.

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Matthew Ford
Matthew Ford is an academic currently focusing on war and the data-saturated battlefields of the 21st century. His lastest book – Radical War (Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York 2022) – with Professor Andrew Hoskins from Glasgow University traces war’s data trajectories, from the epicentres of battle out to distant parts of the world, into history, memory and as it is memed into the platforms that mediate digital culture.
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