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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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From bulletins to bullets to blogs and beyond

the ongoing communication war of the Karen

Geff Green

pp. 61-82

Abstract

Geff Green focuses on the communication approaches taken by the Karen communities displaced from Burma and who live in diaspora. Apparent control and empowerment provided by new technologies may be illusive. When using media for warfare or perhaps for more innocuous public relations purposes, activists may actually create "ammunition" for opponents. Targeted attacks on specific communities or "audiences' have a high impact by reifying discourse in a devastating way by connecting to lived experience in the victims.

Publication details

Published in:

Karatzogianni Athina, Nguyen Dennis, Serafinelli Elisa (2016) The digital transformation of the public sphere: conflict, migration, crisis and culture in digital networks. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 61-82

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_4

Full citation:

Green Geff (2016) „From bulletins to bullets to blogs and beyond: the ongoing communication war of the Karen“, In: A. Karatzogianni, D. Nguyen & E. Serafinelli (eds.), The digital transformation of the public sphere, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 61–82.