Why the Syrian uprising is the first social media war
This is how we see war in 2013: next to like buttons and view counters. As a battle flared just west of Idlib, a contested city in northwest Syria, a camera was mounted on an old Kalashnikov rifle so the audience would have nearly the exact same perspective that a video game player has in blockbuster first-person shooters like Call of Duty or Counter-Strike.
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