This study aimed to understand how the social image of the Ramadan War is formed, organized, and revised through adolescents’ experiences of exposure to social media. The study adopted a qualitative approach and employed thematic analysis. Participants consisted of 18 adolescents aged 15–18 residing in Karaj, who were selected through purposive sampling with attention to diversity in age, gender, and patterns of media exposure. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and analyzed following Braun and Clarke’s six-phase thematic analysis process. The trustworthiness of the findings was enhanced based on Lincoln and Guba’s criteria. The findings showed that adolescents’ social image of the war was shaped through the interplay of everyday exposure to war-related content, visual and emotional experiences, relating the event to their personal lives, and conversations with others. This image comprised multiple dimensions of meaning, including security-related, humanitarian, ethical, collective, defensive, and future-oriented meanings. When encountering convergent and conflicting narratives, adolescents evaluated and interpreted content by comparing sources, examining evidence, identifying bias, assessing narrative coherence, discussing accounts with others, and suspending judgment under conditions of uncertainty. Their image of the war was also revised through new information, alternative narratives, family and peer interactions, the moderation of emotional responses, and the accumulation of experience. Overall, the social image of war is neither a direct reflection of media messages nor a fixed structure; rather, it is a contextual, interactive, and revisable outcome in which adolescents, as interpretive agents, actively participate in constructing, evaluating, and reconstructing the meaning of war. These findings highlight the need to shift the analytical focus from media effects on adolescents toward adolescents’ interpretive agency in networked media environments.