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eBook
Friended at the Front
2015
Overview
For most of us, clicking \"like\" on social media has become fairly routine. For a Marine, clicking \"like\" from the battlefield lets his social network know he's alive. This is the first time in the history of modern warfare that US troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home. Lisa Ellen Silvestri'sFriended at the Frontdocuments the revolutionary change in the way we communicate across fronts. Social media, Silvestri contends, changes what it's like to be at war.Based on in-person interviews and online with the US Marines,Friended at the Frontexplores the new media habits, attitudes, and behaviors of troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, and some of the complications that emerge in their wake. The book pays particular attention to the way US troops use Facebook and YouTube to narrate their experiences to civilian network members, to each other, and, not least of all, to themselves. After she reviews evolving military guidelines for social media engagement, Silvestri explores specific practices amongst active duty Marines such as posting photos and producing memes. Her interviews, observations, and research reveal how social network sites present both an opportunity to connect with civilians back home, as well as an obligation to do so - one that can become controversial for troops in a war zone.Much like the war on terror itself, the boundaries, expectations, and dangers associated with social media are amorphous and under constant negotiation.Friended at the Frontexplains how our communication landscape changes what it is like to go to war for individual service members, their loved ones, and for the American public at large.
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Subject
/ Deployment (Strategy)-Social aspects-United States
/ Facebook (Electronic resource)
/ Facebook (Electronic resource)-Social aspects-United States
/ HISTORY
/ Military
/ Social media-Government policy-United States
/ Soldiers
/ Soldiers-Family relationships-United States-History-21st century
/ Soldiers-United States-Correspondence
/ Soldiers-United States-Social life and customs-21st century
/ United States-Armed Forces-Military life-History-21st century
/ United States.-Marine Corps-Social life and customs-21st century-Case studies
/ War and families-United States-History-21st century
/ YouTube (Electronic resource)
/ YouTube (Electronic resource)-Social aspects-United States
ISBN
0700621636, 9780700621637, 0700621369, 9780700621361
