Dear community members, As we mark today two years since the invasion of Ukraine (February 24, 2022), I wish to introduce you to a meaningful book publication - "Media and the War in Ukraine" - published by Peter Lang. Edited by Mette Mortensen and Mervi Pantti, this timely volume gathers the work from diverse scholars on the pivotal role digital media and communication play in influencing and shaping the narrative of the war in Ukraine. The book delves into the complex network of media, spanning from traditional broadcasting and press to cutting-edge social media platforms and digital technologies. The book explores four critical themes: (1) the dynamics of media infrastructures and their interactions with platforms, technologies, institutions, and civic actors; (2) the impact of open-source intelligence on the war's (dis)information; (3) the portrayal and documentation of the war's day-to-day realities on social media; and (4) the complex relationship between local and global perspectives in war reporting. Please see the table of contents: *Introduction * *Part One: Media Infrastructures * Chapter 1. Understanding the Ukrainian Informational Order in the Face of the Russian War \ Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg Chapter 2. Swarm Communication in a Totalising War: Media Infrastructures, Actors and Practices in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian Invasion \ Kateryna Boyko and Roman Horbyk Chapter 3. Social Media Platforms Responding to the Invasion of Ukraine \ Mervi Pantti and Matti Pohjonen *Part Two: The Use of Open-Source Intelligence * Chapter 4. Open-Source Actors and UK News Coverage of the War in Ukraine: Documenting the Impacts of Conflict and Incidents of Civilian Harm \ Jamie Matthews Chapter 5. Faking Sense of War: OSINT as Pro-Kremlin Propaganda \ Marc Tuters and Boris Noordenbos *Part Three: Everyday Media in War * Chapter 6. TikTok(ing) Ukraine: Meme-Based Expressions of Cultural Trauma on Social Media \ Tom Divon and Moa Eriksson Krutrök Chapter 7. ‘Grandma Warriors’ on YouTube: Negotiating Intersectional Distinctions and De/legitimisations of the War in Ukraine \ Marja Lönnroth-Olin, Satu Venäläinen, Rusten Menard, Teemu Pauha and Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti *Part Four: News and Geopolitics * Chapter 8. The Emotional Gap? Foreign Reporters, Local Fixers and the Outsourcing of Empathy \ Johana Kotišová Chapter 9. Indian Press Coverage of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine \ Antal Wozniak and Zixiu Liu Chapter 10. Reporting the War in Ukraine: Ecological Dissimulation in a Dying World \ Simon Cottle *Afterword* Participative War: The New Paradigm of War and Media \ Andrew Hoskins The book is available for purchase at this link - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1311889 - and I encourage you to recommend it to your universities and institutions. Adding this work to their collections will provide students and researchers with broader epistemological frameworks for understanding how digital media influences, shapes, and transforms the representation of war. Keep safe, Tom Divon -- *Tom Divon* Media & Culture R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> *Publications*: Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>. Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366530633_Playful_Publics_on_TikTok_The_Memetic_Israeli-Palestinian_War_of_CHALLENGE> . #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>. Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/> PERFORMING DEATH AND TRAUMA? PARTICIPATORY MEM(E)ORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN TIKTOK# POVCHALLENGES <https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995> visit my web! https://tomdivon.com/