The Instagram War: Gaza & Israel, 2012

…welcome to a media space in which we are consuming hostility and processing raw data and raw propaganda almost as quickly as the war correspondent, the fighter pilot, the governments, the diplomats and the antagonists themselves. –Michael Shaw * * * U

via John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History: http://johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2012/11/instagram-war-gaza.html

Propaganda has been a part of every war that history knows anything about, and creating and disseminating it has largely been the job of professionals — war doctors, priests, reporters, photographers, politicians, bureaucrats.

Social media and smart phones have let amateurs in on the action