The World Information War: Western Resilience, Campaigning, and Cognitive Effects

ISBN-13: 9780367496517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Timothy Clack; Robert Johnson

Opis

This book outlines the threats from information warfare faced by the West and analyses the ways it can defend itself.

Spis treści

Foreword Rick Legett  Introduction: The world information war Robert Johnson and Timothy Clack  Part I: How Did This War Start?  1. A brief history of propaganda: ‘a much maligned and misunderstood word’ David Welch  2. Homo Digitalis enters the battlefield David Patrikarakos  Part II: Truth, Cognition, and Control  3. Democracy and contemporary media: what is the problem? Alexander Prescott-Couch  4. The changing nature of propaganda: coming to terms with influence in conflict Alicia Wanless and Michael Berk  5. ‘Does my suffering matter?': Storytelling and the military  Oliver Lewis and Chris DeFaria  Part III: How Others Fight  6. Women, digital imagery, and the Islamic State: ‘guns and roses’ Rebecca Fallon and Timothy Clack  7. Social media, computational propaganda, and control in China and beyond Gillian Bolsover  8. Russian information war: construct and purpose Keir Giles  Part IV: Policy Response and How to Fight  9. Algorithmic pluralism: media regulation and system resilience in the age of information warfare Damian Tambini  10. Digital propaganda, counterpublics, and the disruption of the public sphere: the Finnish approach to building digital resilience Corneliu Bjola and Krysianna Papadakis  11. Information warfare: theory to practice Robert Johnson  12. Artificial intelligence, security and society Keith Dear  Part V: On the Horizon  13. From Beijing bloggers to Whitehall writers: observations on the ‘invisible war’ Timothy Clack and Louise Selisny  14. War in an age of uncertainty Nigel Inkster