scholarly journals From “Troll Factories” to “Littering the Information Space”: Control Strategies Over the Russian Internet

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
Ilya Kiriya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
State Information ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Legislative Regulation ◽  
Echo Chambers

This article explores aspects, transformations, and dynamics of the ideological control of the internet in Russia. It analyses the strategies of actors across the Russian online space which contribute to this state-driven ideological control. The tightening of legislative regulation over the last 10 years to control social media and digital self-expression in Russia is relatively well studied. However, there is a lack of research on how the control of the internet works at a structural level. Namely, how it isolates “echo chambers” of oppositional discourses while also creating a massive flood of pro-state information and opinions. This article argues that the strategy of the Russian state to control the internet over the last 10 years has changed considerably. From creating troll factories and bots to distort communication in social media, the state is progressively moving towards a strategy of creating a huge state-oriented information flood to “litter” online space. Such a strategy relies on the generation of news resources which attract large volumes of traffic, which leads to such “trash information” dominating the internet.

IT for Peace? Fighting Against Terrorism in Social Media – An Explorative Twitter Study

i-com ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Reuter ◽  
Katja Pätsch ◽  
Elena Runft
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Members ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media

AbstractThe Internet and especially social media are not only used for supposedly good purposes. For example, the recruitment of new members and the dissemination of ideologies of terrorism also takes place in the media. However, the fight against terrorism also makes use of the same tools. The type of these countermeasures, as well as the methods, are covered in this work. In the first part, the state of the art is summarized. The second part presents an explorative empirical study of the fight against terrorism in social media, especially on Twitter. Different, preferably characteristic forms are structured within the scope with the example of Twitter. The aim of this work is to approach this highly relevant subject with the goal of peace, safety and safety from the perspective of information systems. Moreover, it should serve following researches in this field as basis and starting point.

Battling over Social Media: Public Protest and State Responses to Dr Li Wenliang’s Death in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Hongyi LAI
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The State ◽  
State Interaction ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Protest ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
State Responses

This article discusses the state and public reactions on the internet to the death of Dr Li Wenliang, the whistle-blower who warned of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Contrary to findings in existing literature, this study argues that the society–state interaction over the internet is far more dynamic and complex, and that autocratic states have the capability and resilience to manage and even control the internet. While the internet could help rally waves of public outpourings and protests, the state, in response, broadcast its tactical concessions to ease widespread public anger. However, the state has been able to portray its overall highly effective control of the epidemic, thereby claiming political credits and legitimacy for governance.

‘In Google we trust’? The Internet giant as a subject of contention and appropriation for the Russian state and civil society

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Bronnikova ◽  
Anna Zaytseva
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Risk Model ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Russian State

This article explores an apparent paradox related to the use of Google services in Russia: several NGOs based in the country consider the Internet giant as a protector of civil liberties. The highly polarized Russian political context, in which local technological companies are increasingly controlled by the State, explains the widespread uses of Google services in daily practices of NGOs. We show how their risk model is focused on the threat emanating from the State, seen as more important than risks emanating from global private companies. In this context, “big tech” solutions are preferred to open source software as they are valued for their usability. Internet giants, such as Google, are understood by civil society actors as powerful allies in this internal confrontation, as their dominant economic role is seen as a guarantee that they will not yield to pressure from authorities. Finally, we will see how, in parallel, self-regulatory virtues of the competitive global IT market, and the strength of global public opinion, are supposed to “naturally” force these companies to comply with ethical standards in data use.

Parking Guidance System Based on RFID

2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 2787-2790
Author(s):  
Rong Chun Sun ◽  
Yan Piao
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
The State ◽  
Guidance System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Parking Space ◽  
State Information ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Ultrasound Sensor ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Parking Place

With the rapid increase of vehicles, the problem of parking has become very serious. So to guidance drivers to park is significant. A parking guidance system was proposed. Firstly, parking place is divided into different regions. Then the state of the parking space in a parking region is detected by ultrasound sensor, and the state of the parking region in a parking is detected by RFID reader. Through the internet of things, the state information is transmitted to the control center in real time that mainly is an industrial computer and is responsible for dealing with the state information and sending guidance commands to displaying signs, which are at crossroad and guidance passing cars. The experiment results show that the parking guidance system works well, and has the value of application and promotion to some extent.

scholarly journals Menumbuhkan Jiwa Wirausaha Melalui Peran Sosial Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hawik Ervina Indoworo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Abstract - Now the development of entrepreneurship is able to expand new employment opportunities and sustain the economy of the State. The need for information and personal development is increasing along with advances in telecommunications technology over the internet. The development of the internet makes the number of the users taking advantage of this as a profitable business opportunity like online businesses. The euphoria of the use of social media (facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.) over the internet has become a trend in society. Of course it affects the behavior change in the way the community communicate and interact with others. This condition is driven by two fundamentals which are the new behavior of the citizen and the technological revolution. The growth of social media users should certainly benefit companies in reaching consumers with a way to innovate in doing business, marketing and communication. Keywords: entrepreneurship, social media

scholarly journals g - #Sisi_vs_Youth: Who Has a Voice in Egypt?

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 327-348
Author(s):  
Albrecht Hofheinz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Right

This article presents voices from Egypt reflecting on the question of who has the right to have a voice in the country in the first half of 2016. In the spirit of the research project “In 2016,” it aims to offer a snapshot of how it “felt to live” in Egypt in 2016 as a member of the young generation (al-shabāb) who actively use social media and who position themselves critically towards the state’s official discourse. While the state propagated a strategy focusing on educating and guiding young people towards becoming productive members of a nation united under one leader, popular youth voices on the internet used music and satire to claim their right to resist a retrograde patrimonial system that threatens every opposing voice with extinc-tion. On both sides, a strongly antagonistic ‘you vs. us’ rhetoric is evident.

scholarly journals «Third Space», «Echo-Cameras» and Online-Communities: Reproduction of Political Ideologies in Social Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Timur Badmatsyrenov ◽  
Fedor Khandarov ◽  
Alexander Tsydenov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Echo Chambers

The study of the features of the reproduction of political ideologies in social networks and the formation of user communities united by adherence to some political ideas is an urgent problem of contemporary political science. Social media has become an agent for the development of new forms of political activity, providing unprecedented opportunities for transferring and exchanging information, broadcasting political ideas, and involving people in virtual and real communities. Today, social media have become not just a means of transmitting information and a form of entertainment, but a special global form of social political interaction, increasingly penetrating into the most diverse aspects of society. In political interactions, the online services of new media can be described as a “third space”, a development of Ray Oldenburg's concept, in which he singles out a part of the social space not related to housing (“first place”) and work (“second place”). Online communities on social networks have become a mixed form of institutionalized political and informal non-political interactions, as exemplified by ideologically based social media groups. The transformations caused by the rapid development of the Internet and “new social media” are giving rise to a fundamentally new reality of social interaction, which combines two contradictory trends. On the one hand, the Internet and social media have expanded people's access to information and significantly increased the field of social interaction and communication, thereby creating the basis for uniting users on various grounds, including political and ideological views. On the other hand, such changes led to a crisis of trust between the participants. Users belonging to different political ideologies form stable “echo chambers” in their Internet environment, rigidly filtering the information they receive, locking themselves in and reproducing the attributes of only their political ideology and not allowing outsiders there. In our opinion, this requires a study that provides for a close study of ideological “echo chambers”, which seems necessary for understanding the processes of political communication and ways of reproducing political and ideological views in the online sphere.

scholarly journals Uczestnictwo społeczne a pandemia w warunkach rosyjskich. A. D. 2020

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6(75)) ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
Anna Jach
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Group Participation ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Russian State ◽  
First Time

Social Participation and the Pandemic in Russian Conditions: A.D. 2020 The aim of this analysis is a diagnosis of grassroots social (individual and group) participation in the conditions of the state in deepening crisis – the state which not for the first time has turned out to be not only unprepared, but also unable and uninterested in undertaking effective actions preventing and mitigating the results of the pandemic. The accompanying question concerns the endurance of the civil society emerging in an authoritarian state the RF undoubtedly is – the society which, having once tasted self-organization and independence, will not be interested in giving up their constitutional civil freedoms or political, cultural and social rights. What invariably remains an important tool used in the analyzed process is the Internet, which still is beyond the control of Russian state structures.

Tweeted Heresies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Hamidaddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
The State ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
The Future

How should we understand religion in Saudi Arabia? To what extent does religion control the various aspects of Saudi life? Why are more and more Saudis and generally Muslims leaning toward heresy? Why are many others exhibiting an indifference toward religion? And how does our understanding of the state of religion in Saudi Arabia inform us about the state of religion in other Islamic communities? This book explores the emergence of nonbelief and the response to it from the Salafi-Wahhabi religious institutions of Saudi Arabia. While previous studies have focused on particular institutions and their role in religious change, this study focuses on individuals that have criticized religion by taking advantage of the virtual space of social media. In doing so, they have questioned the most fundamental aspects of Saudi society: politics, religion, social justice, gender, sexuality, and the future of the country. Just as importantly, these individuals, who emerged first on the Internet, have mounted a frontal challenge to religious orthodoxy, whether through calls for religious reform or, even more provocatively, through debates over concepts of deity, duty to Allah, and morality.

scholarly journals INFORMATION SECURITY AS COMPONENT NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEMS (INTERNATIONAL AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Information Security ◽  
National Security ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Global Information ◽  
State Information ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

The article is devoted to the research of legal and organizational principles of ensuring information security of states in the modern conditions of development of information society. Theoretical approaches to the definition of the essence of «information security» and «national security» are analyzed and their interrelation is proved. The urgency of the chosen topic of scientific research is caused by the fact that confrontation in the information sphere becomes a fundamentally new sphere of competition between the states. The rapid pace of development of information and communication technologies, creation of a global information space has led to many cybernetic threats in important spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life of society. The paper presents the results of the analysis of information security of the state as a factor of influence on the national security of the state as a whole, and thus defines information security as an integral part of national security. Given the magnitude of the global information challenge, the inability to address these issues through the efforts of individual states, the article explores the issue of international cooperation in providing international information security within the United Nations. The contents of the basic international legal acts adopted by the UN General Assembly, which indicate the threats to the international security of the information space and the need for the states to take joint action to counter the challenges in the field. Particular attention is paid to the peculiarities of regional cooperation of states in providing information security within the European Union. It is determined that this area of EU activity is one of the priorities for today. The main EU normative acts are analyzed, which present the European approach to the problem of information security. The general characteristics of the activities of the special bodies of the EU (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security - ENISA, European Cybercrime Centre), whose activities are aimed at providing information security, are given. The article explores the issues of guaranteeing information security of Ukraine and protection of the national information space. The types of real and potential information threats to the information space of Ukraine are revealed, as well as practical recommendations are given on improving the state information policy and creating an effective system of counteracting cyberspace threats. Emphasis is placed on the fact that state information policy should reflect urgent issues that have arisen in the international information and information security sphere. Effective implementation of strategic priorities, basic principles and tasks of the state information security policy requires improvement of legal and organizational mechanisms of information security management.

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