War contained in 140 characters – the civil war in Syria in images and narratives of the Twitter social space

The purpose of the article is to analyse the ways in which the Syrian war is portrayed in the Twitter domain. It is not concerned with the recreation of the truth of the violent conflict documented in text messages, photographs and films published between 2015-2016 by Syrian organisations home and abroad, as well as activists. Instead, the idea here is to establish a strategy for the creation and dissemination of narratives – texts, images and films – in communication spaces. In other words, it refers to the ‘creation’ of war and its components (enemies, victims, destruction, massacre sites), the ‘translation’ of the war for Western and Arabic audiences (a comparison of differences in communication and visual strategies – a war translation analysis done by 7-year-old Bana Alabed seems very interesting) and the ‘negotiation’ of war and its elements in the Twitter space