Australian Institute of International Affairs | My War: Participatory Warfare in the Russian-Ukrainian War @AIIAvision | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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In a time when we study, work, shop, and socialise remotely, digital media also afford unprecedented opportunities for participating remotely in armed conflicts. Digital technologies – blurring the boundaries between military and civilian actors, physical and mediated battlefronts, weapons and witnesses, citizens and diasporas – offer new capabilities in conducting military operations. They extend the battlefronts into the realms of communication and perception. And they reconstitute the social conditions shaping people’s relationship to wars.
Dr Olga Boichak is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. She is a Ukrainian-born sociologist with expertise in computational social science, and her research interests span networks, narratives, and cultures of activism in the digital age. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Boichak co-led a project at Syracuse University that explored the influence of social bots in political conversations online. She is currently a chief investigator on an eSafety Commissioner-funded project that explores patterns of social media use among young people.
Boichak is an editor of the Digital War journal and has a track record of publications on contemporary Ukraine with a focus on information operations, volunteering, military crowdfunding, and diasporic humanitarianism surrounding the Russian-Ukrainian war. Her work has appeared, among others, in Big Data & Society, International Journal of Communication, Media, War & Conflict, Global Networks, and Intelligence and National Security. Fellowships and awards have included a Fulbright Fellowship (2014) and the University of Sydney SOAR Prize (2022-2023).
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In a time when we study, work, shop, and socialise remotely, digital media also afford unprecedented opportunities for participating remotely in armed conflicts. Digital technologies – blurring the boundaries between military and civilian actors, physical and mediated battlefronts, weapons and witnesses, citizens and diasporas – offer new capabilities in conducting military operations. They extend the battlefronts into the realms of communication and perception. And they reconstitute the social conditions shaping people’s relationship to wars.
Dr Olga Boichak is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. She is a Ukrainian-born sociologist with expertise in computational social science, and her research interests span networks, narratives, and cultures of activism in the digital age. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Boichak co-led a project at Syracuse University that explored the influence of social bots in political conversations online. She is currently a chief investigator on an eSafety Commissioner-funded project that explores patterns of social media use among young people.
Boichak is an editor of the Digital War journal and has a track record of publications on contemporary Ukraine with a focus on information operations, volunteering, military crowdfunding, and diasporic humanitarianism surrounding the Russian-Ukrainian war. Her work has appeared, among others, in Big Data & Society, International Journal of Communication, Media, War & Conflict, Global Networks, and Intelligence and National Security. Fellowships and awards have included a Fulbright Fellowship (2014) and the University of Sydney SOAR Prize (2022-2023).
