اينترنت و عمليات رواني : نمونه جنگ عراق

Internet and Psychological Operations : The Case of Iraq War

Internet has affected all aspects of human life; propaganda, persuasive communications, and psychological operations arc among those aspects. In this respect, two revolutionizing influences of internet are transforming of large-scale propaganda and psychological operations into exactly guided psychological operations, hierarical structural psychological operations into plural and deconstructive psychological operations. The present article is trying to analyze the psychological operations carried out in Iraq by exploiting of these theoretical statements. Then it evaluates the credibility of such theories in the light of Iraq war data and evidence.