بتحـولات عميقـة في البنيـة التكنولوجيـة والجيليـة للمجـال الإعلامـي؛ إذ أتاحـت الشـبكات الاجتماعيـة إمكانـات غيـر مسـبوقة لتفكيـك السـرديات الرسـمية ومنافسـة الهيمنـة الإعلاميـة التقليديـة، رغـم مـا واجهتـه الروايـة الفلسـطينية مـن أشـكال متعـددة مـن الرقابـة والمنـع والحـذف الرقمـي للمحتـوى المؤيـد للفلسـطينيين. إعلام، الحــرب على العــراق، الحــرب على غــزة، الإخفــاء، فــوق- كلمــات مفتاحيــة: الواقـع، الشـبكات الاجتماعيـة. Abstract: This study examines the transformations wrought by social media in the representation of contemporary wars and conflicts, based on the cases of the wars on Iraq (1991–2003) and the Gaza Strip (2023). It compares Western media discourse and its approach to news coverage in these two contexts by addressing the following guiding question: what distinguishes Baghdad from Gaza as each is bombarded in Western media? Is this difference merely a function of time, or does it reflect deeper technological and generational shifts that have reshaped the global media landscape? And how has the networked generation succeeded in undermining the dominance of the Israeli narrative and bringing the Palestinian narrative to the forefront on a global scale? Adopting a comparative analytical approach, the study investigates the role of social media in reconfiguring the reality of contemporary warfare in both Iraq and Gaza. It draws on a theoretical framework grounded in the work of French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, particularly his concept of hyperreality and his well-known proposition in The Gulf War Did Not Take Place- namely, that Western media representations transformed the war into a form of “ hyperreality ” that obscured the reality of violence and destruction, presenting it instead as a clean, technical and “ smart ” war. The study argues that the shift from a traditional media environment to a networked digital one- in the case of the genocidal war on Gaza- has led to a transformation in media discourse from a centralised, ideologically driven format to fluid, decentralised narratives produced and circulated across digital spaces. During the war on Iraq, Western media institutions largely dominated the representation of the conflict and the construction of its narrative. By contrast, in the 2023 war on the Gaza Strip, social media emerged as a central arena of narrative contestation, where users, particularly the “ networked generation ” , played a key role in producing and disseminating real-time, on-the-ground content that reshaped global public perception of
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