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Author: Thomas Elkjer Nissen Publisher: Royal Danish Defence College ISBN: 8771470972 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 148
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#TheWeaponizationOfSocialMedia develops a framework to understand how social network media shapes global politics and contemporary conflicts by examining their role as a platform for conduction intelligence collection, targeting, cyber-operations, psychological warfare and command and control activities. Through these, the weaponization of social media shows both the possibilities and the limitations of social network media in contemporary conflicts and makes a contribution to theorizing and studying contemporary conflicts. Democracies operate as if Information is second to the other elements of national power. In fact it is the aspect from which all power is derived. We fail to understand this at our peril, while our adversaries ‘get it’. In democracies to autocracies, information is a valuable resource that is increasingly difficult to control. That is how it should be. However, the Weaponization of Social Media, as Thomas Nissen adeptly describes it, is simultaneously based on and enabling several dangerous trajectories. These include new marketplaces for loyalty, the ability to opt-in (and out) of identities, perceived transparency across battlefields and diplomacy, and media illiteracy and a commensurate decline in the standards of journalism.
Author: Thomas Elkjer Nissen Publisher: Royal Danish Defence College ISBN: 8771470972 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 148
Book Description
#TheWeaponizationOfSocialMedia develops a framework to understand how social network media shapes global politics and contemporary conflicts by examining their role as a platform for conduction intelligence collection, targeting, cyber-operations, psychological warfare and command and control activities. Through these, the weaponization of social media shows both the possibilities and the limitations of social network media in contemporary conflicts and makes a contribution to theorizing and studying contemporary conflicts. Democracies operate as if Information is second to the other elements of national power. In fact it is the aspect from which all power is derived. We fail to understand this at our peril, while our adversaries ‘get it’. In democracies to autocracies, information is a valuable resource that is increasingly difficult to control. That is how it should be. However, the Weaponization of Social Media, as Thomas Nissen adeptly describes it, is simultaneously based on and enabling several dangerous trajectories. These include new marketplaces for loyalty, the ability to opt-in (and out) of identities, perceived transparency across battlefields and diplomacy, and media illiteracy and a commensurate decline in the standards of journalism.
Author: Thomas Elkjer Nissen Publisher: ISBN: 9788771470987 Category : Information warfare Languages : en Pages : 148
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Social Network Media has become an integral part of the conflict environment over the past 15 years and longer. Western liberal democracies, however, still look at war in a classical manner and therefore fail to grasp the new realities of contemporary war and the nature of its goals. It is on this strategic backdrop that this monograph poses, and seeks to answer, the overall question of how social network media has been weaponised and how this development has affected the character of contemporary conflict. In doing so, the monograph will address questions such as what characterises contemporary conflicts, and how can social network media be understood within this theoretical framework? What is the role of social network media in a contemporary conflict framework, and how do they fit into the concept of 'cyber-warfare'. Which effects are sought and how are they created? And how does the introduction of social network media affect the character of contemporary conflicts? Furthermore, a meta-theoretical framework for understanding the effects in the form of social-constructivism will also be discussed throughout the monograph, directly and indirectly. The scope of this monograph is therefore to look at the use of social network media in contemporary conflicts as a weapon system or capability with the purpose of creating political, strategic, operational or tactical effects in support of policy objectives. Most interesting is how it is possible to create 'military' effects, e.g., inform, influence, deceive, deter, disrupt and destroy targets, or target audiences, in support of such policy objectives in and through social network media, which normally are created through the application of more traditional military capabilities in accordance with conventional war-fighting doctrines. One of the major differences, though, is that nearly all actors can do this in today's global information environment, due to the opportunities that the development within information and communication technology affords them.
Author: Peter B.M.J. Pijpers Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1035307294 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 273
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This enlightening book examines the use of online influence operations by foreign actors, and the extent to which these violate international law. It looks at key recent examples such as the 2016 UK EU Referendum, the 2016 American Presidential Election, and the 2017 French Presidential Election. The book analyses the core elements of interventions and sovereignty, and the extent to which these elements were violated in the three central case studies.
Author: Stanisław Fel Publisher: V&R unipress ISBN: 3737015066 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 173
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This monograph presents issues related to the armed conflict in Ukraine, which began in 2014 and is still ongoing. It shows the socio-historical background of warfare; the factors determining the distribution of adaptive resources (assigning them meaning, as well as experienced gains and losses of a subjective, state, material and energy nature). It also portrays the relationships between the distribution of adaptive resources and: 1) active, emotional and avoidant strategies for coping with war stress; 2) multidimensional consequences of long-term participation in war circumstances – including use of psychoactive substances, somatic disorders, mental difficulties, symptoms of depression, PTSD syndrome, post-traumatic growth.
Author: Iulian Chifu Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009355260 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 371
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This book seeks to critically review and evaluate the changes and consistencies in how warfare is interpreted and represented by academics, mass media outlets and political actors in the 21st century. The authors suggest that it is essential to understand the evolution and transformation of contemporary warfare's conceptualisation and practice in order to make sense of the current global geopolitical transformations that are in process, from a unipolar to multipolar global order. They therefore examine the various key actors in international relations from conceptual, theoretical and empirical perspectives through thematic chapters that demonstrate the increasingly central role played by intangible factors in the representation and management of contemporary armed conflict. The book stresses the need to reflect and rethink the potentially highly problematic trajectory of the global community within the framework of 21st century warfare's political and informational influence and effects.
Author: Dirk Berg-Schlosser Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1529715431 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 2445
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The SAGE Handbook of Political Science presents a major retrospective and prospective overview of the discipline. Comprising three volumes of contributions from expert authors from around the world, the handbook aims to frame, assess and synthesize research in the field, helping to define and identify its current and future developments. It does so from a truly global and cross-area perspective Chapters cover a broad range of aspects, from providing a general introduction to exploring important subfields within the discipline. Each chapter is designed to provide a state-of-the-art and comprehensive overview of the topic by incorporating cross-cutting global, interdisciplinary, and, where this applies, gender perspectives. The Handbook is arranged over seven core thematic sections: Part 1: Political Theory Part 2: Methods Part 3: Political Sociology Part 4: Comparative Politics Part 5: Public Policies and Administration Part 6: International Relations Part 7: Major Challenges for Politics and Political Science in the 21st Century
Author: Rob Johnson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000347060 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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This book examines the key dimensions of 21st century war, and shows that orthodox thinking about war, particularly what it is and how it is fought, needs to be updated. Accelerating societal, economic, political and technological change affects how we prepare, equip and organise for war, as well as how we conduct war – both in its low-tech and high-tech forms, and whether it is with high intensity or low intensity. The volume examines changes in warfare by investigating the key features of the conduct of war during the first decades of the 21st century. Conceptually centred around the terms ‘kinetic’, ‘connected’ and ‘synthetic’, the analysis delves into a wide range of topics. The contributions discuss hybrid warfare, cyber and influence activities, machine learning and artificial intelligence, the use of armed drones and air power, the implications of the counterinsurgency experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, as well as the consequences for law(fare) and decision making. This work will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, security studies and International Relations. Chapters 1, 2, 5, and 19 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Management Association, Information Resources Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1799890309 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 685
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Military technology is highly advanced in terms of technology being used in the field, computer applications, artificial intelligence, and software applications. These high-performance technologies range from weapons to communications technology to automation in vehicles and weaponry. These technologies must be both secure and reliable in harsh environments. Research is being focused specifically on that, including how military and defense applications operate, what modern technologies are being used, and the ethics surrounding these applications. A holistic view of these applications is necessary for both understanding current military tactics and tools along with the future applications. The Research Anthology on Military and Defense Applications, Utilization, Education, and Ethics focuses specifically on military and defense operations, expenditure, technologies, and tools, and the ethics surrounding technologies like weaponry and artificial intelligence in the military. The chapters cover a wide and diverse range of military and defense applications while providing crucial information on the functions, security, and reliability of these technologies. Beyond an understanding of the applications themselves, this book also focuses on military education surrounding these technologies and the ethics of usage to provide a well-rounded understanding of research in the field. This book is ideal for military consultants, military personnel, defense agencies, national security agencies, government officials, defense personnel, policymakers, military educators and trainers, stakeholders, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the latest research in military and defense applications.
Author: Thomas Elkjer Nissen
Author: Thomas Elkjer Nissen
Author: Thomas Elkjer Nissen
Author: Peter B.M.J. Pijpers
Author: Khurshid Ahmad
Author: Stanisław Fel
Author: Iulian Chifu
Author: Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Author: Rob Johnson
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Author: Management Association, Information Resources