Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields

The Convergence of Programmable Media at the Military-Civilian Margin

By: Stefan Werning

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Real Wars on Virtual Battlefields analyzes the multifarious exchange of algorithmic technologies and concepts between the military and the media industry from the early 1990s until today. Unlike most related scholarly works, which focus on digital games, this book drafts a model of programmable media that is grounded in a close reading of the key technologies. Key technologies reviewed are most notably the paradigm of object-oriented programming and technical disciplines from a humanities perspective. This model is then applied to analyze the effects of algorithmic logic on the military-civilian continuum, including economic practices, patterns of media usage, and military decision-making.

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Table of Illustrations	p. 8
Introduction	p. 11
Remilitarization - Coming to Terms with the Notion of War in Contemporary Western Societies	p. 11
Programmable Applications within Media Deployment Policies	p. 17
The State of Research and the Polities of Documentation	p. 23
Programmable Media as Socio-Cultural Filters	p. 29
Digital Games as a Subset of Programmable Media	p. 44
Towards an Integrative Model of Programmable Media Analysis	p. 49
Technical Preliminaries	p. 52
Building Blocks for a Model of Programmable Media Analysis	p. 53
Critical Considerations on the Current State of Game Studies	p. 53
Towards Programmable Media Analysis	p. 63
Reading (Digital) Games as Code	p. 89
Socio-Cultural Implications of Analyzing Programmable Media	p. 95
From Technology Semiotics to Programmable Media Analysis	p. 106
Program Code Rhetoric in Academic Literature	p. 123
The 'Next Generation'	p. 129
Epistemological Effects of Programmable Media in Perspective	p. 131
Towards an Epistemology of Program Code	p. 131
The Compatibility/Standardization Paradigm	p. 135
The Computability Paradigm	p. 142
A Program Code Model of Authenticity Effects	p. 159
Nature in the Age of Algorithmic Representability	p. 182
History as Simulation	p. 196
Simulation/Emulation	p. 199
Programmable Media at the Civilian/Military Margin	p. 203
Before 'Information Warfare' (IW)	p. 206
The Doctrine of Information Warfare	p. 210
War and (Media) Literacy	p. 215
New Rules of Play - Algorithms as Role Models of Military Self-Description and Organization	p. 226
A Concluding Look Back	p. 257
From the War in the Gulf to the Global War on Terror - A History in Games	p. 259
The Methodological Problem of the Gulf Wars'	p. 259
The Global War on Terrorism in Digital Games	p. 263
Delimiting Wars by their Media Representations	p. 291
Encyclopedicity	p. 306
Applied Forum Analysis - An Ethnographic Perspective on Programmable Media	p. 308
Peripheralization and Universalization. Macro Effects of Programmable Media in Military-Civilian Contexts	p. 325
Historiographical Effects of Digital War Games	p. 325
A Comparative Look at COTS Games in Military Applications	p. 328
Grids as a Ubiquitous Dimension of (Digital) Warfare	p. 335
Politico-Military Rhetoric and Code(s) in Non-War Game Contexts	p. 340
Inserting Military Iconography into Media Usage Ecologies	p. 346
Psychophysical Coercion of the Interface	p. 347
The Implied Economization of War and Programmable Media Systems	p. 352
Composing Universal Aesthetics and Narratives of War	p. 370
Virtual Wars - Real Battlefields	p. 379
Bibliography	p. 391
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