ABSTRACT
During the past years, digital media have transformed the options for observers of and participants in conflict to communicate their experience, knowledge, and viewpoints through eyewitness images. This development has changed the public’s access to news and insights from the front line, media coverage of conflict, and information management by state and military. In treating these subjects, this book has continued and developed the emerging research on eyewitness images as well as the rich literature on media and conflict. Still, as the first monograph to focus exclusively on eyewitness images from conflict in the digital age, an important aim has been to lay out some of the groundwork and establish wider historical and cultural contexts, single out a genre definition, delineate a systematic theoretical framework, and present a number of exemplary analyses.
