Portfolio von Carolin Schmitt - Dichter, Texter, Schreiber deutsch/englisch

New Media, New Wars, and New Films The pictures of the terror attack in New York on 9/11 travelled around the world with lightning speed and are irrevocably connected with the memory of the crumbling World Trade Center. The attack provoked a military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan that sent thousands of soldiers into war. As a modern, global war, the conflict was not only documented by news reporters and official video coverage, but also by soldiers on their tour of duty in Iraq, who recorded what they saw and experienced on new, mobile technologies: private cell phones and digital cameras. Unofficial pictures from the war were distributed over the internet and created an image of the conflict that seemed to highlight atrocities (1) and war crimes rather than the promised fight for freedom, differing greatly from the official pictures of the war distributed by the press. By now, a little more than a decade after the beginning of ‘Operation Freedom’, the American occupation of I...