War of Images, Images of War: Four Media Events of the Iraq War (Guerra De Imágenes, Imágenes De Guerra: Cuatro Eventos Mediáticos De La Guerra De Iraq)

Abstract

This is a analysis of the communicational environment that characterize this time of globalization, when the scene of the news diffusion has had substantial changes, not only technical, but also political and cultural. Therefore, this historical framework reflects a reposition of the communications practices and its Government and mass media use, with evident effects in the case of war broadcast, when the Iraq case is an example that is worth to take on consideration. The New World Order required a communication strategic that start work in that occasion and since then meaning of information and images are reinforce as ‘weapons’ of war in the framework of a ‘visual military complex’ that belongs to the ‘digital culture and globalization interface’.

Keywords: Mass media, war of images, Iraq, new technologies