scholarly journals Strategic narratives in the system of mechanisms for countering informational influence

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Olena Snytko
Keyword(s):  
Information Space ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
Informational Influence ◽  
Dimensional Interaction ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Independent Decision

The study addresses the issue of strategic communications in Ukraine’s information space. It defines strategic communications as a system of informational multi-dimensional interaction with the public on socially relevant topics through diverse mass media outlets directed at promoting national goals. Strategic communications aim at exerting influence on the individual by appealing to the freedom of speech principle and providing strong encouragement towards independent decision-making, as well as by drawing the public’s attention to socially relevant issues and the ways to approach them. Strategic communications entail the emergence of distinct strategic narratives. Therefore, gaining a better insight into strategic narratives allows determining the causes of the socially significant situation and the prospects for its resolution. The paper explores the narrative about the origin of the Ukrainians, which is steadily unfolding in the information space. This narrative represents a distinct multimodal semantic plural aimed at promoting the idea of national identity and statehood. The study has found that different versions of the strategic narrative about the origin of the Ukrainians in the Internet space have similar semantic and conceptual patterns and involve multiple narrators. At the same time, they provide varying amounts of information and commenting features, target different audiences, and, for this reason, require relevant tools of influence, namely argumentation and suggestion. Тhe methods of randomizing ideas, breaking patterns, and creating cognitive dissonance are widely used in the creolized political texts. In the context of information warfare, a powerful strategic narrative, as a rule, instigates the emergence of a counter-narrative, which has an asymmetrical structure. The struggle of narratives has become the dominant feature of modern media space.

scholarly journals Informational influence: concept and evolution in modern scientific idea

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
O. Zimenko
Keyword(s):  
Practical Significance ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Scientific Idea ◽  
Informational Influence ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

postgraduate student, Department of Information, Library and Archival Affairs, Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine INFORMATIONAL INFLUENCE: CONCEPT AND EVOLUTION IN MODERN SCIENTIFIC IDEA The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the concept of “informational impact”, its evolution in scientific idea, as well as methodological aspects of the development of information technology in the context of their connection with the phenomenon of the information impact. The methodology. The work studies this issue by examining the basic methods and principles of information studies. The results. The concept of “informational influence” can be represented as a form of influencing the consciousness of the individual, carried out using the media resource in order to change the formed assessments, opinions, beliefs, values ​​for further transformation of its behavioral response to events. Not enough attention is paid to the informational influence as a phenomenon in the works of the scientists, because it is considered as an integral part of other definitions, and not as a separate phenomenon. It is important to note that the concept of “informational impact” as a phenomenon is almost not considered in scientific works. Most often, informational influence was an integral part of other definitions, rather than a separate process. Thus, this problem has not been considered comprehensively, and it needs additional attention of the scientific community. Informational influence, as well as the use of media resources in modern conditions are becoming an integral part of socio-political conflicts. The media and the phenomenon of informational influence itself is a tool for both the emergence and resolution of conflict situations. The conclusion about global informatization and formation of high-tech information infrastructure, and also about importance of consideration of information influence as one of tools of manipulative technologies is made. The scientific novelty. The author’s definition of the concept of “informational influence” is formulated, as well as its place as a tool of manipulative possibilities are analyzed, and also the questions of manipulative possibilities of mass media and communication are considered. The practical significance lies in the analysis of scientific and theoretical views of this matter. The phenomenon of informational influence in the context of information warfare and manipulations is considered.

scholarly journals Russian Cyber Information Warfare: International Distribution and Domestic Control

MCU Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-127
Author(s):  
Lev Topor ◽  
Alexander Tabachnik
Keyword(s):  
Information Warfare ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Informational Influence ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Foreign Influence ◽  
International Distribution ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Cyber information warfare (IW) is a double-edged sword. States use IW to shape the hearts and minds of foreign societies and policy makers. However, states are also prone to foreign influence through IW. This assumption applies mainly to liberal democratic societies. The question examined in this article is how Russia uses IW on other countries but protects itself from the same activities. The authors’ main argument is that while Russia executes influence operations and IW in cyberspace, it strives for uncompromising control over its domestic cyberspace, thus restricting undesirable informational influence over its population.

Public Libraries in the Modern World

2018 ◽  
pp. 239-263
Author(s):  
M.N. Venkatesan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Public ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Independent Decision

Modern society has various needs such as education, research, cultural advancement, information, spiritual and ideological pursuits, pastime and recreation. Society has founded various institutions to serve these needs, among them the library occupies a prominent place; the library is able to meet all of them in equal measure. The public library is the local centre of information making all kinds of knowledge and information made available to its users. The public library, the local gateway to knowledge, provides a basic condition for lifelong learning, independent decision making and cultural development of the individual and social group. A public library as enunciated in the UNESCO Manifesto (1994) is expected to play the libraries role in three main areas like information, education and culture. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of how the public libraries support and guides the digital and modern world.

Cyberspace Ethics and Information Warfare

2011 ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Matthew Warren ◽  
William Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
New World ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Individual

We have seen a rise in computer misuse at a global level and also the development of new policies and strategies to describe organized computer security attacks against the information society–these strategies are described as being “information warfare.” This is very different from the traditional view of attack against computers by the individual, determined hacker, a cyber warrior with a code of conduct to follow. Today the threats come from individuals, corporations, government agencies (domestic and foreign), organized crime and terrorists. This new world of conflict in the electronic ether of virtual cyberspace has brought with it a new set of ethical dilemmas.

Cyberspace Ethics and Information Warfare

2011 ◽  
pp. 126-134
Author(s):  
Matthew Warren ◽  
William Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
New World ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Individual

We have seen a rise in computer misuse at a global level and also the development of new policies and strategies to describe organized computer security attacks against the information society–these strategies are described as being “information warfare.” This is very different from the traditional view of attack against computers by the individual, determined hacker, a cyber warrior with a code of conduct to follow. Today the threats come from individuals, corporations, government agencies (domestic and foreign), organized crime and terrorists. This new world of conflict in the electronic ether of virtual cyberspace has brought with it a new set of ethical dilemmas.

scholarly journals MEM AS A TOOL OF INFORMATION WAR

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
Lidia Smola
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact

It is devoted to the problem of analyzing memes as a tool of information warfare. The article analyzes the history and origin of the study of memes as a phenomenon of information interaction and social technology. Memes can be interpreted as: image, idea, symbol, action, any cultural information copied by one person from another; the collective unconscious at the moment of acquiring verbal and visual form; specially created information message, which is distributed in the information space and is intended to form the necessary picture of the human world and make appropriate decisions. The meme influences the perception of reality and drives action. Different types, types of memes and their characteristics are considered. There is a diversity of spread of this phenomenon: global Internet memes, understandable to a wide range of people, and local memes that require specific awareness (gaming, hacking, scientific, professional). Emphasis is placed on the use of memes in contemporary armed conflicts. The information war, combined with the peculiarities of the modern information society, led to the use of new technologies to influence the mass consciousness, in particular, memetic weapons. The article analyzes memetic weapons as a technology of using memes for the distribution of beneficial information in the information space of the object of information confrontation. Particular attention was paid to the analysis of the perceptions of memes by ATO participants and volunteers. The urgency of the problem is determined by the need to analyze the impact of ideas reflected in Internet memes on the mass consciousness during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Within the framework of the Polish-Ukrainian project "Crisis Intervention – Support for NGOs in Ukraine Working with ATO Soldiers and Their Families", 20 flexible interviews were conducted. The focus of the study may be to analyze the perception and functioning of political Internet memes on social media. Empirical studies of the influence of Internet memes on the structural components of the psyche of Internet users are also promising. The war in eastern Ukraine reaffirmed the paradigm shift of modern warfare, demonstrated the thoroughness of a thorough study of the phenomenon and the need to develop entirely new approaches to the realization of political and military goals.

USING OF NEW MEDIA IN INFORMATION WARFARE AS A PART OF MODERN POLITICAL CULTURE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Korianova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Positive Information ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Informational Influence ◽  
Concept Of Information

The article analyzes the significant role, place, and influence of the new media during information war, which is used as a modern political practice and tool for achieving political goals. The concept of “information war” within the Ukrainian legislation is defined and the peculiarities of its course are established. Since there are many definitions of information warfare, this article formulates this term clearly based on Ukrainian context. Information warfare is actions aimed at achieving information superiority support of national military strategy acting both, local information sources and information systems of the enemy while ensuring security and protection of the information owner. Information warfare is the most promising way to “continue politics by other means” now. We have considered five basic rules used in information campaigns: surveillance, exaggeration, and distortion, orchestration or silence, transfusion, and infection. It was found that the concept of the informational influence of mass media on the person and, society follows from the analysis of these influences. Analysis of information warfare, its principles and methods allows us to understand the essence of these influences. It is very important in the context of Russian aggression in Ukraine in modern conditions. The article also presents and analyzes the most commonly used models of media influence on public opinion. Information influence can be both, positive and negative. Moreover, positive information has an educational function. The purpose of negative information is to inflame social conflicts, exacerbate differences in society. The problems of information warfare should be solved by counteracting the manipulative media technologies and improving methods of counteraction, fight with fake news and misinformation in general. It is proved that the effectiveness of the applied technologies determines the further location of forces in the political arena.

scholarly journals Truth in the Time of Infowars: Moral Politics and Conscience

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kacper Szulecki
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Moral Politics ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
The Cold War

Speaking truth to powers-that-be and overthrowing a “regime of lies” were both dissident trademarks during the Cold War era. But what if overreliance on such an idealized and static notion of Truth can be a problem in an age of post-factual politics and information warfare? In this essay, I first problematize the idea that “truth will set us free” and re-read Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless together with a contemporary work—the film Camouflage by Krzysztof Zanussi—to find other foundations for political strategies, beyond the “struggle for truth,” that might transcend the post-totalitarian situation and inform our normative choices and political agency today. In a reality over-flooded with information, where spreading doubt and forging counter-narratives has become a weapon, and where conspiracy theories seem to gain ground, relying on a self-evident distinction between Truth and Lies no longer has the power for political mobilization. It is individual conscience—nesting moral and political responsibility within the individual—rather than an externally existing Truth that might prove a more productive compass in a world of multiple vantage points and continuous re-interpretations.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE PARADIGM IN REFLECTIONS OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Ayta Sakun
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Education Economics ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Modern Era

The dominant feature of today is the “knowledge society” – a worldview and scientific concept, updated by social, cultural and philosophical discourses in the process of a thorough rethinking of the theory of “information society”. Gaining increasing popularity in connection with the problematization of the cognitive dimensions of education, economics and technology, this concept gains a modern definition: it is a society whose development is based on internal polyphony and the individual abilities of each of its representatives. Thus, in modern society, not only “information”, but also “knowledge” plays a special role. The separation and differentiation of these two concepts are of fundamental importance. The modern era (having reached the definition of the "era of knowledge") brings a new understanding of "knowledge".

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