Critical Security Studies in the Digital Age: Social Media and Security

This book demonstrates that the disciplinary boundaries present within international relations approaches to security studies are redundant when examining social media, and inter— and multi—disciplinary analysis is key. A key result of the analysis undertaken is that when examining the social media sphere security scholars need to “expect the unexpected”. This is because social media enables users to subvert, contest and create security narratives with symbols and idioms of their choice whi...