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Ukraine: trying to make sense of identity and war in the age of the smartphone

Ukrainian identity is being reinvented by war. Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has helped to orchestrate this reinvention through social media campaigns – #standwithukraine – while engaged in a daily struggle against Russian cyber attacks and direct artillery bombardment.

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Matthew Ford
Domains: Ethics, Power & Politics & Engineering

Ukrainian identity is being reinvented by war. Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has helped to orchestrate this reinvention through social media campaigns – #standwithukraine – while engaged in a daily struggle against Russian cyber attacks and direct artillery bombardment. At the same time, self-organising groups like the North Atlantic Fellas Organisation seek to […]

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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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