This is an extended news report on the Israel Defence Forces' social media activities including interviews with the soldiers updating the various IDFSpokesperson accounts.The video is a year old, but I've been looking for this sort of material for a while. The......more
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The Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent on new tools for journalists
Harriet Sherwood reflects on life as a foreign correspondent after four months in Jerusalem for The Guardian. Here she offers an assessment of the new platforms available to journalists:"...in the digital age, there are other platforms to consider. I have......more
A lesson in information operations
That's what Andrew Exum at the Center for a New American Security thinks the Israeli raid on the Free Gaza flotilla provides.......more
The blog as a weapon in an era of information war
I've been doing some research into the coverage of the Gaza conflict (back end of 2008, front end of 2009) on blogs. One of the English-language blogs that covered the war was the Muqata blog.The Muqata blog was started......more
Round up: Marjah; war reporting; Facebook and the IDF.
Fighting the Taliban in Marjah, Afghanistan.There was an interesting little sub-plot in this article in The Times about the aim of protecting and winning over the population in a counterinsurgency operation. On the one hand these US Marines were being......more
IDF soldier blogs from the front line
A blogging American-Israeli combat soldier has been deployed to the West Bank. According to his blog, 25 year old Danny Brothers has finished his training with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) and is serving in "al-Madina al-Muqaddasah" - a pseudonym......more
IDF Twitter feed breaks 179 day silence
Rather intriguingly the Twitter feed for the Israeli Defence Force, @IDFSpokesperson, has offered the world a tweet for the first time in 179 days. Clearly IDF Spokesperson was getting back into the swing of things because the first one was......more
(Not) contacting the IDF through social media
In my post about the Israeli Defence Force and their use of social media during the Gaza conflict, I said I was trying to chase up the IDF for a comment or response to it. I, for one, would be......more
Daniel Bennett - Reporting War
Daniel Bennett is a PhD student researching the impact of blogging and new media on the BBC's coverage of war...