SIPRI Senior Researcher Dr Susan T. Jackson has been awarded 19.8 million Swedish kronor ($2.97 million) by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) to conduct research on the gendered militarization of social media, leading an international team of eight researchers based in four cities in three countries: Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Entitled Militarization 2.0, the project includes a series of meetings, conferences and publications and will culminate in a foundation text on the topic as well as a public database. The project is the first wide-scale mapping of social media in the arms and military services industry and the military games industry.
Read more about the project (in Swedish).