Journal of Media Studies and Research

This study discusses determining strengths and weaknesses of terrorist Daesh media strategy by estimating Daesh center of gravity in its media and ideological strategy and developing an effective counter strategy that fights it ideologically and culturally, makes it lose influence and refutes its deception methods. By adopting Clausewitz’s strategy, the research aims to achieve several goals, the prominent is setting effective focal points for a counter strategy, confronting terrorist Deash strategy.
The study adopts a descriptive analytical approach in commenting and discussing focal points in terrorist Daesh strategy, and building a media strategy against it.
The study reaches conclusions: building a multi-level media strategy of programmed and effective planning to confront terrorist Daesh propaganda war, as terrorist Daesh media strategy relies on symbols and images, and uses videos and images to prove its influence and implant its ideas.

The tremendous developments in communication technology in the world led to the emergence of a number of social networking sites that broke the barrier of control of major agencies, which strengthened the concept of communication, which provided the opportunity for the citizen to be a producer of the message through social networking sites.
In this research, the reliance on communication sites is studied as a source of information in covering the popular movement.
Among the most important findings of the research are: that most of the correspondents rely on news agencies more than communication sites, as they depend on communication sites as a secondary source and not a primary source. Correspondents about the popular movement in the country.

Rumors have risks to countries, societies, and individuals, Therefore, it is important to know the reasons for their spread, goals, risks, and negative repercussions, as well as the need to know the public's awareness of methods of verifying the content of rumors through social media sites and to invest in modern technologies to reaching the truth of information and reducing rumors. Based on this, this research aims to identify the awareness of the Iraqi public of methods of verifying rumors through social media sites by carrying out a survey study in which a questionnaire form was used and distributed to 400 researchers from the city of Baghdad the Centre, (Al-Karkh and Rusafa), women and men aged 18 years and older), and users of social media sites.
The results of the research indicated that users of social networking sites warn their acquaintances and friends of rumors, and the lack of pages specialized in verifying rumors showed results that the posts on social media did not contribute to public awareness of the dangers of rumors and methods of verification.

After social responsibility has become a necessary requirement, to enable the institution to contribute to the well-being of society, and the role of public relations in achieving mutual understanding between the institution and its public by showing honesty, transparency and commitment to responsibility towards the society in which it is active, so the study aimed to highlight the importance and role of public relations in Improving the level of social responsibility practice of Iraqi telecommunication companies (Asiacell and Zain Iraq).
Where the researcher adopted the media survey method in collecting data from a sample of the public in the city of Baghdad, using the questionnaire as a tool for that.
The results of the study revealed a positive but moderate role for public relations in the two telecom companies in improving the level of social responsibility practice towards the beneficiaries of its services during the Corona pandemic.

The Iraqi social existence in general and Mosul in particular is the product of a complex personality in its features, and that this simultaneous structure is the product of a group of factors and elements, some of which are derived from the depth of its civilization, history, and its geographical and social environment. And the pressures that this society experienced and produced these two cultural models in thought and behavior to the point of dependency in their administrative, legal, professional and informal aspects, and its specialized markets were filled with people of different types who contribute to social change. It has cultural characteristics that are far from political practice for many reasons, including social, economic, and political ones, and the post-2003 events in general, and the control of extremist thought gangs over the city of Mosul in particular has a great impact on the culture and personality of the Mosul community.

Classes and elites are of great importance in the political and social life of society. They determine the social and economic position of the individual and determine the ruling and ruled class in society. Karl Marx was the pioneer of class analysis in capitalist society and the stages that society goes through and its political system based on the dominant class in a particular historical era. The contributions of Max Weber's writings made a great contribution to understanding the class arrangement in society, adding the social and political dimension to the study of the class structure as well as the economic dimension.

Public opinion polls are one of the most important means on which government institutions rely in their dealings with their external and internal audience, in order to serve the institution’s goals in gaining knowledge of the tendencies and desires of its audience. In support and development of her work, and these surveys differ in their presentation of the issues for which the survey worked, and the experiences and knowledge in this field varied, so in this topic we will present the surveys obtained by the researcher from the Ministry of Culture - Child Culture House as a model for research .
The surveys on which the Iraqi government institutions represented by the Ministry of Culture - Child Culture House were based in their dealings with their audience were studied through descriptive analysis and knowledge of the effectiveness of these surveys in serving and developing Iraqi government institutions.

We live in a world that is witnessing changes and developments in everything, which makes it fragile and on the brink of collapse, so the media and the media have multiplied and social media sites have become a platform for everyone who wants to communicate with the world around him to deliver and receive information at the same time, which contributed to the convergence of civilizations and cultures alike, as well as contributed to the achievement of a renaissance and unity of societies during crises.Since the term crisis is multi-meaning, it is necessary to define a different concept of crises and classify them through positions and their type, knowing that each crisis is related to an information crisis, and anyone who is not proficient in information management will not be proficient in managing the crisis, including direct operational practical aspects, and that the complexities and ramifications of the various existing and interrelated networks are a factor of vulnerability that exacerbates crises and turns from an underlying situation to a severe situation with a lack of a sense of interdependence and that everything collapses where Contribute Social networks adopt systems that improve and develop as the general public uses them more.

The research monitors the nature of the media discourse of ISIS and then the “caliphate state” that was formed through it and the transformations that occurred in the discourse through two levels: the stage of control and empowerment and implementing policies after the formation of its alleged state, which we called the empowerment of physical reality, and the post-state stage and its loss The land and the transformation of its policies and organizations into virtual reality and the management of its affairs via the Internet and through social networking sites, which we called “the potential of the figurative space.” The vision revolves around how the discourse will be after losing the sites on which the state was based and the political and military developments that undermined the authority of the organization , and whether it will affect the structure of the discourse and the extent of its effectiveness, and in brief…

Freedom of press is one of the Pillars of a democratic system and an indicator of a good Governance. Freedom of the press is included in the human rights and freedoms stipulated in most international human rights charters and covenants, which obligate member states to include these principles into their legislations.
Since freedom of the press is not an absolute freedom, it can be subjected to organizational restrictions, and to examine the commitment of States in ensuring the freedom of Press as one of Basic freedoms in their societies in accordance with standards and mechanisms as defined by international charters and covenants, it is necessary to clarify guarantees, standards and mechanisms of restrictions in international charters and covenants, and then to look in the constitution and legislations of the state’s regulations of press freedom, mechanisms and conditions for its restriction and it’s compatibility with international mechanisms and standards

Rumours are one of the most important methods of psychological warfare because they are used effectively during military confrontations due to their strong influence on people.
This research aims to identify the nature of the use of rumours in psychological combat operations and its impact on the nature of the conflict during the battle for the liberation of Mosul for the period from October 16, 2016 to June 10, 2017. It also aims to reveal the methods of employing them and their target audience and classifying them according to their content.
The research community represents all the rumours that are circulated during the battle to liberate Mosul from the control of ISIS, these rumours are obtained from the Directorate of Information and Public Relations in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior Affairs. Their number is about 6360 rumours.
The most important findings of this research are that rumours are largely employed in psychological combat operations by ISIS.