Social Responsibility of the Media and the Law of War; an Approach to the Sociology of Revolutionary Media in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Occasionally, human societies go out of their natural state and become captives of crisis and war. The modern world still has a traditional approach to war. Maybe, the appeal of the media system and the mass media practice, especially the revolutionary media, to social responsibility can create a new doctrine in the innocent rights justification, the guarantee of a better implementation of international law, especially the law of war, and the preservation and consolidation of global peace and security. This research focuses on the mass media's approach to the war and the social responsibility of the media in the war analytically and descriptively, which deals with the performance of IRNA, BBC, and CNN news agencies in the Russia-Ukraine war. The results reveal that the media can help to realize the discourse of social justice via assessing the policies of their respective government and the ruling ideology and obeying it. Although some governments, by limiting the freedom of the media, despite reflecting some facts, may not fully fulfill their social responsibility principle and uphold innocent people's rights in conflicts, being aware of the influence of the mass media on public opinion, they try to distort the truth as they want by censoring the news. This necessitates a review of the media social responsibility principle and the special system creation to support the freedom of mass media during conflicts, as well as explaining the foundations of the sociology of revolutionary media and strengthening and increasing such media in social communication.