מיקרו־סוציולוגיה של מלחמות חדשות

This paper provides visual analysis of a representation sample of terror attacks (TA) which occurred in Israel during 2015-2016, a period which is labeled “The Intifada of Individuals”. The aim of the study is to explore the “Black Box” of face-to-face belligerent encounters. The “New Wars” approach require analytical and methodological tools that could be used for sociological interpretation of close quarter violence. Our research may add a new direction to this purpose by using available materials that military sociologists can retrieve and employ when they use the “Macro” level framework in their study of “Micro” level actions. We suggest that the current abundance of audiovisual devices allows a new perspective of belligerent friction typical of New Wars. Our methodology includes a combination of video and audio materials from open source. The collection of the data was augmented by automatic data mining software that collected additional videos in social networks. Our analysis untangles the complexities of belligerency by minimizing the overall occurrences to the actions of the antagonist, the disrupter and the crowd. The results point to the utility of microsociology analysis in the understanding the violence of TA and overcoming the manipulation of the events by media, government and terrorists.