The department of journalism at the college of media at the University of Baghdad held a scientific symposium entitled (the objectives of psychological warfare and soft power in digital communication) in the participation of many faculty members to address this vital topic. The research papers focused on the definitions of psychological warfare and its objectives and the nature of the relationship with the term soft power and its influential and convincing methods in the target audience through the media and electronic communication, and we can mention that psychological warfare is going with soft war or soft power in a parallel line without intersection in the objectives to achieve the spread of influence and control.
The participating professors presented their scientific ideas in this context through shedding light on the transformations of psychological warfare and its relationship with soft power with a critical vision, as well as the methods of soft power and its international effects, especially in digital communication, as well as the effectiveness of digital advertising and its impact on users, also how such power is vivid in convincing incentives reflected in social media, the struggle of abundance in the digital space, in addition to strengthening the concept of popular diplomacy and its impact on the public, addressing rumors, the use of exaggeration formulas as a tool in online soft warfare or for achieving victory.
