Violent Virtuosity: Visual Labor in West Africa's Mano River War

In this essay, I argue that the Mano River War should be understood as a conflict to which the ubiquitous presence of digital media was crucial. This was a war structured by the economy of attention. To profit in this economy combatants and non-combatants were required to play to an audience that th...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Anthropological quarterly 2011-10, Vol.84 (4), p.949-975
1. Verfasser:	Hoffman, Danny
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Africa Artificial satellites Audience Audiences Cameras Commercial production Conflict Digital technology Equipment and supplies Ethnology Information Age International economics Mass Media Media Meyer, Birgit Military Personnel Militias Postmodernism Profit Profits Satellites Social organization, political organization and power, relations with the State Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity Social structure and social relations Violence Virtuosos War West Africa
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