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NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/14614448211047951
关键词
Audio-visual social media; boundary blurring; military veterans; private security; public-private; YouTube
资金
- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet) VR [340-2012-5990]
Private security companies blur the lines between public and private sectors by providing services to state militaries. They challenge boundaries through hiring practices and reconstitute the private sector through military values introduced by veterans. Video-based platforms allow security actors to construct their corporate identity in ambivalent ways through appealing to different emotional levels and giving rise to different narratives.
Private security companies (PSCs) blur the lines between the public and the private sector through the provision of services to state militaries. Based on a multi-modal qualitative content analysis of YouTube recruitment videos aimed at veterans, we show how PSCs also challenge these boundaries through their hiring practices. By relating to veterans' past as hero warriors and by envisioning their future as corporate soldiers, the companies appear as 'like-military' and as allowing ex-militaries to 'continue their mission'. The findings contribute to scholarly debates about the privatization of security. They illustrate that similarly to the public sector, the private is also re-constituted through the military values that veterans introduce. The study adds to the literature on the visualization of war showing how video-based platforms allow security actors such as PSCs to construct their corporate identity in ambivalent ways by appealing to different emotional levels and by giving rise to different narratives.
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