Description
Examines How Social Media and AI Reshape Global Narratives of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
The Israel–Palestine conflict has long stood at the center of international attention, but in the digital era, it has taken on new dimensions shaped by social media and machine intelligence. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary examination of how digital technologies have transformed the ways the conflict is represented, debated, and understood. By tracing the algorithmic amplification of propaganda, the rise of digital resistance movements, and the weaponization of disinformation, this pioneering collection provides an urgent scholarly response to a conflict increasingly mediated through data, platforms, and AI-driven systems of visibility and control.
Editors Innocent Chiluwa and Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak bring together leading and emerging voices from across the humanities, social sciences, and information technology to address the interplay between communication, power, and justice in an age of algorithmic mediation. Through critical analyses of discourse, media structures, and technological infrastructures, the contributors reveal how social media and AI shape perceptions of legitimacy, violence, and victimhood, influencing both public sentiment and policy. Offering fresh frameworks for understanding how digital communication technologies not only reflect but actively construct geopolitical realities, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence
- Explores how algorithms, bots, and generative AI shape global narratives of war, identity, and resistance
- Offers interdisciplinary perspectives bridging linguistics, media studies, digital sociology, and political communication
- Provides new evidence of how digital propaganda and misinformation influence public perception and policy debates
- Demonstrates how online activism and AI-driven content amplify polarization and shape cultural imaginaries beyond the Middle East
- Introduces innovative methodologies in critical discourse analysis and digital ethnography for studying conflict communication
The first comprehensive study of its kind, The Israel-Palestine Conflict in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence fills a vital gap in media and conflict scholarship. It is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, scholars, and researchers in linguistics, media and communication studies, political science, international relations, and conflict and peace studies. It is suitable for courses such as Media and Conflict Communication, Disinformation and Fake News, Algorithmic Media and AI in Communication, and Digital Ethics and Society within MA, MSc, and PhD programs.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors xiii
Foreword xviii
1 Introduction: How Social Media and Artificial Intelligence Construct the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 1
Innocent Chiluwa and Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak
Part 1 Constructing Warfare in Algorithmic and AI-Generated Content 11
2 War in the Digital Realm: A Critical Study of Online Psychological Warfare in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 13
Mohul Sen and Nitesh Tripathi
3 Algorithmic Imaginaries: AI-Generated Visual Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 30
Emre Meriç, Rahmi Uysal, and Onur Aker
4 Generic War Imaginaries: AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Gaza Conflict in the Adobe Stock Controversy 51
Stefano Brilli, Laura Gemini, and Chiara Spaggiari
5 “Digital Justice in Wartime”. Content Strategy and Advocacy in the Coded Scenario 68
Sara Concetta Santoriello 68
Part 2 Digital Activism and Resistance 85
6 Legitimating War and Retaliation in #IsraelUnderFire and #PrayForIsrael 87
Innocent Chiluwa and Katerina Strani
7 Disputing the Archive: Palestinian Women Filmmakers, AI, and the Battle over Representation 104
Carlos Navarro González
8 Subverting Pro-Israeli Tweets and “Hasbara” on X 119
Rhon Teruelle and Damani Wicks
9 The Social Obligation Paradox: #BlockOut and Celebrity Silence in the Context of the Israel-Hamas War 138
Hannah Blundon
10 [Re]Framing Victimhood: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Digital Narratives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 155
Paulinus Nnorom, Oluwagbenga Kayode, and Bethel Obiyor
Part 3 Disinformation and Propaganda 175
11 Disinformation, Propaganda, and Hate Discourses on the Israel-Hamas Wars 177
Esra Demirci
Web References 193
12 Algorithmic Bias in Social Media Platforms During Israel-Hamas War (2023–2025): How Algorithms Magnify Divisive and Misleading Information 195
Muhammad Osama Shafiq
13 Tactical Visibility: Algorithmic Affect and the Struggle Over Representation 211
Ayşe Aslı Bozdağ
14 Weaponizing Lies on Social Media: Disinformation on the Israel-Palestine Conflict as Classified by PolitiFact 230
Aftab Hossain, Gregory John Simons, Abdul Kabil Khan, and Sakibul Alam
15 How IDF TikTok Videos Aestheticize War into Entertainment after October 7, 2023 248
Carolin Constanze Melz
Index 000
