Information warfare technologies in political discourse

Anna Yu Karpova,Natalia N Kabanova,Ekaterina N Soboleva,Nataliya G Maksimova,I Ardashkin,N Martyushev

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20162801048

Abstract

We attempt to examine the technology of «information warfare» in this paper. The dominant theme of the paper is that the outcome of the information warfare is important not only for the future of a state itself but for the future of the world balance of forces. The main task of geopolitical actors in information warfare is to introduce ideas corresponding to their interests into mass consciousness. All participants of political conflicts have common features in technologies of Information warfare. The information anomie is the indicator of the great geopolitical actors’ personified interests on the stage of «information warfare» - the process resulted in destroying the communicative line: report-information understanding and disrupting the social order in society. In this paper authors describe the following Information Warfare technologies: Political volcano technology; SPIN technology; Widening media resource technology; specific gravity technology; Cold War 2.0 technology and Information cleaningup technology. It is assumed that in the future there will be new instructions on applying technologies of information warfare. To impart perspective to the paper we consider examples, opinions and trends.

Highlights

IntroductionHalf an age ago Alvin Toffler described the future shock, which would “overwhelm people” in the XXIst century
Materials and methodsNearly half an age ago Alvin Toffler described the future shock, which would “overwhelm people” in the XXIst century
Against the background of this information war" (IW), Ukraine threatens to refuse using Russian gas and disown all accumulated debt, which looks like acting in the interests of European Union (EU), seeking steady traffic

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Introduction

Half an age ago Alvin Toffler described the future shock, which would “overwhelm people” in the XXIst century In his opinion the "bombardment of the senses" in the global information space leads to a shock type which he named "information overload". According to Toffler, the intervention into mass consciousness starts "When the individual is plunged into a fast and irregularly changing situation, or a novelty-loaded context, his predictive accuracy plummets. He can no longer make the reasonably correct assessments on which rational behavior is dependent." [1, 2]. Information attacks, to his opinion, create mass apathy, schizophrenia, loss of adequate decisionmaking ability or lead to outbreak of violence and vandalism, the politics of nihilism and alarm

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