16News curation, war, and conflict
The role of the Internet in communicating war and conflict has been of increasing academic interest (see Cottle, 2006; Matheson & Allan, 2009; Hoskins & O’Loughlin, 2011; Chouliaraki, 2015). The proliferation of digital networked devices means that today conflicts are saturated with more information than ever before, and this information is transmitted through a wider variety of actors and groups; in other words, there is an increase in the chorus of voices vying to assert their account or narrative of events within the new media ecology.1 There are those who are physically proximate to conflict (a direct eyewitness regardless of other roles that actor might occupy); those who are actors to the ...
