Cyberidentities At War

Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (2009, Routledge), co-editor of Theorising Media and Practice (2010, Berghahn) with John Postill and Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn) with Philipp Budka. She is also published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

• List of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Cybertheoretical FoundationsChapter 2. Anthropological Internet Research and MethodologyChapter 3. The Moluccan ConflictChapter 4. The Masariku Mailing List – An Example of an Online CommunityChapter 5. The CCDA Newsletter – Online to the International CommunityChapter 6. The FKAWJ Online – Jihad in CyberspaceChapter 7. Textual and Visual Argumentation in Moluccan CyberspaceChapter 8. Cyber StrategiesChapter 9. Cyber Actors Online and OfflineChapter 10. Cyberidentities at War – Summary, Conclusion, PerspectivesEpilogueBibliography

“This is a highly interesting study of the way three internet sites operated in the Moluccan violent conflict over a number of years…The book offers a wealth of information about the Moluccan conflict and provides an in-depth study of the new media that make current conflicts so much more complex. Moreover, there are few long-term studies of the use of cyberspace.”  ·  Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max-Planck-Institute, Halle/Saale