War beyond war (and the media of mass distraction)

Abstract

This paper focuses on how propaganda works considering the current case of the war on Irak. Following this example, our hypothesis consists of an unprecedented expansion of propagandist codes and discourses that are spreading in the most important mass-media, beyond the limits of conventional informative genre or political discourse. Hence, mass culture might be changing into the scenario of a permanent war parallel to the new war conflicts of the global era.