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The summer 2006 war in Lebanon, arguably the first war of the New Media Age, posed new and globally unfamiliar realities for an entire country: War waged largely on the civilian home front, with virtually live media coverage and online reporting via the Internet.

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Limor, Y. (2007). Israel and the New Media. In: Seib, P. (eds) New Media and the New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605602_9

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