"Warbloguers"los nuevos periodistas en los campos de batalla del ciberperiodismo de guerra

Resumen

During the invasion of Iraq the importance of blogs came to the fore in comparison to the information given by journalists who were sitting tight with the coalition army or in the safety of the Hotel Palestine and lacked a general vision of the war. Although there was a massive display of traditional media it did not prevent biased information which caused people‟s interest to move towards online news discourse. The use of the Internet enabled those who were informed to talk about events without undergoing any kind of censorship . These warbloggers narrated events they themselves had experienced by using reliable sources. They transmitted this information by using the typical literary devices of the genre in the same way as the so-called „new journalists‟ had done. Given that they did not undergo military censorship, neither did they have to suffer the censorship of standard inverted pyramid journalism. The objective of this paper is to carry out an analysis of the content of three posts of the most representative blogs. “Where is Raed?”, “Bagdad Burning” or “Back to Iraq”, which were considered the best way to transmit information at the time of the Iraqi conflict. Discussion and conclusions are aimed at identifying the key elements of this new journalism, which made online war journalism the most important new s scenario in 2003.