Inaccessible war: media, memory, trauma and the blueprint

Hoskins, Andrew; Illingworth, Shona

doi:10.1057/s42984-020-00025-8

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“…What the media and journalists have constructed is in fact an algorithmically driven, invisible digital war, which has been gradually expanded by the joint participation of non-humans and humans, and the popularity of social media platforms has disrupted the inherent relationship between war and society, thus creating a process of communication that is engaged, but uneven, on a global scale 4 . Due to the uncertainty in news selection as well as the falsehood of social media, the like mechanism, the me-dia's fight for traffic, likes and likes are embedded with too many personal subjective ideas and unseen agendas 5 And from the Cold War period onwards, the new world information and communication order became a tool and a victim of the struggle for hegemony between states. During this period, countries were fully aware of the importance of information dissemination.…”

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“…The increasing trend towards information and opinion warfare in digital warfare and the changing nature of online media messages has created a new era of 'compassion fatigue' in digital warfare 5 . In the vast media arena, the circumstances of war and its effects are magnified and made more visible with the help of digital media.…”

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The Relevance of Compassion Fatigue in Social Media Discourse on the Russia- Ukraine Crisis

Zhan¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

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On 24 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special military operation against Ukraine, accompanied by the sounding of air-raid sirens in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, and the Russia-Ukraine crisis officially broke out. This East Asian crisis has attracted global attention and sparked extensive global media coverage. This study aims to explore the relevance of sympathy fatigue in the discourse of social media regarding the Russia-Ukraine crisis. At a time when digital warfare has become one of the forms of modern warfare, how the public, as a media audience, understands and creates public opinion has become the focus of research on social media audiences. The outbreak of a war crisis is also a tragedy for humanity. Digital warfare has created a new era of compassion fatigue. A critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of Weibo and Twitter reveals the different characteristics of the content of communication in the different social contexts of China and the West, the collision of nationalism and racism, the pursuit of peace and the spread of Confucianism. And underneath these contents, popular sympathy fatigue is weakened as well as enhanced. And reflecting on compassion fatigue itself, not only in terms of its communication effects but also in terms of understanding its own meaning, the enhancement of compassion is not necessarily the direction to be pursued, but for the strengthening of rational thinking and the supplementation of humanistic concern is the core of what needs to be worked on in the process of war news communication.

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The Relevance of Compassion Fatigue in Social Media Discourse on the Russia- Ukraine Crisis

Zhan¹

2022

Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

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The Long Robotic Arm of the Law: Emerging Police, Military, Militia, Security, and Other Compulsory Robots

Oravec

2022

Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI

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AI and memory

Hoskins

2024

Mem. Mind & Media

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This paper is written at a tipping point in the development of generative AI and related technologies and services, which heralds a new battleground between humans and computers in the shaping of reality. Large language models (LLMs) scrape vast amounts of data from the so called ‘publicly available' internet, enabling new ways for the past to be represented and reimagined at scale, for individuals and societies. Moreover, generative AI changes what memory is and what memory does, pushing it beyond the realm of individual, human influence, and control, yet at the same time offering new modes of expression, conversation, creativity, and ways of overcoming forgetting. I argue here for a ‘third way of memory’, to recognise how the entanglements between humans and machines both enable and endanger human agency in the making and the remixing of individual and collective memory. This includes the growth of AI agents, with increasing autonomy and infinite potential to make, remake, and repurpose individual and collective pasts, beyond human consent and control. This paper outlines two key developments of generative AI-driven services: firstly, they untether the human past from the present, producing a past that was never actually remembered in the first place, and, secondly, they usher in a new ‘conversational’ past through the dialogical construction of memory in the present. Ultimately, developments in generative AI are making it more difficult for us to recognise the human influence on, and pathways from, the past, and that human agency over remembering and forgetting is increasingly challenged.

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Inaccessible war: media, memory, trauma and the blueprint

Cited by 15 publications

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The Relevance of Compassion Fatigue in Social Media Discourse on the Russia- Ukraine Crisis

The Relevance of Compassion Fatigue in Social Media Discourse on the Russia- Ukraine Crisis

The Long Robotic Arm of the Law: Emerging Police, Military, Militia, Security, and Other Compulsory Robots

AI and memory

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