Looking like Flames and Falling like Stars: Kosovo, the First Internet War
For the last decade or so of the twentieth century, many of us were gripped by a powerful idea, an ideology even: that the new media of communications technology, writing, imaging, and data storage would not only revolutionise the way large armies fought wars and big powers conducted politics, but would also open up new spaces and times for less traditional political actors, activists, humanitarian and human rights movements, "independent media", non-governmental organisations, even an international citizenry. Unprecedented opportunities, and new political possibilities. Real-time television, camcorders, fax machines, and the Internet seemed to be creating new forms and zones of the political, new rhythms and speeds, new data conflicts and new rules by which to wage them.
