author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorA researcher who wrote her thesis about television series (musalsalat in Arabic) aired in Syria, and unluckily faced the grim reality of the Syrian Civil War, Donatella Della Ratta gives us a solid and undeniably unique work about transforming aesthetics of propaganda videos, TV shows, and images circulating in new media and the cross-referencing, reviving and everchanging modern myths of a postmodern revolution. Even if her intentions were not related to writing a book about the transformation of new media in a civil war, she states that her deep emotional bond with the Syrian people living in agony, her long-running ethnographic research about visual culture in Syria and her first-hand testimonies from the very first days of peaceful protests in 2011 would have made her write a book about it. Shooting a Revolution offers readers a broad theoretical discussion about the transformation of contemporary conflicts in the age of networked visual culture and helps to frame a more informed debate on the current situation in Syria.https://www.insightturkey.com/author/osman-burak-tosun/shooting-a-revolution-visual-media-and-warfare-in-syriahttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/osman-burak-tosun/shooting-a-revolution-visual-media-and-warfare-in-syriaWed, 23 Sep 2020 18:45:00 GMT