Information-psychological War Research Articles

Mass Culture: A Criminological Approach

A criminological approach to the analysis of mass culture and subculture is aimed at identifying the features of this phenomena that are connected with criminality, its causes, criminal behavior mechanism, formation of a criminal personality, and victimology. Its goal is tо establish the mechanism and effects that modern mass culture has on certain strata of Russian society. Having studied Russian and foreign publications, the authors conclude that mass culture is publicly available entertainment content created by professionals and disseminated by mass media with the purpose of gaining profits and controlling mass behavior. The fusion of commercial interests and purposeful policy of manipulating the behavior of large groups of people is, usually, of criminal character. Profit-driven interests eliminate all moral obstacles and prohibitions, and manipulative technologies are based on a wide range of illegal methods. In the modern world all of this fits the strategy of an information-psychological war. An information war against Russia is being carried out against different target audiences, each of which consumes specific information. It is possible to state mutual connections between the influence of mass culture, being part of a certain social group and a readiness to share the destiny of the Motherland. From the criminological viewpoint, it allows the authors to single out three types of criminogenic personality: a collaborationist, a relocant and a layman.

Application of the media in the information-psychological war

Application of the media in the information-psychological war

Priority directions of the medical psychologists training during the information-psychological war

Priority directions of the medical psychologists training during the information-psychological war

Речевое сопротивление навешиванию политических ярлыков как способ защиты в информационно-психологической войне

The article aims to describe verbal means of resistance to political labelling. Scientific originality of the paper lies in the fact that the author for the first time provides a terminological description of the verbal means under study. The conducted research allows concluding that modern information-psychological war is characterized by using the following verbal means of resistance to political labelling: enthusiastic acceptance of a political label (ironic appreciation of a label considered in its original sense; acceptance of a label with its subsequent axiological reinterpretation); ironic perception of a label; intentional ignoring of a label. The study of verbal means of resistance allows filling the gaps in the linguistic theory of information-psychological war.

The Escalation of Interethnic Relations in the South-Eastern Province of Poland in the Autumn of 1939 as an Element of the Information-Psychological War of the Stalinist Totalitarian Regime in Modern Ukrainian Discourse

The purpose of this article is to analyze the causes, nature and consequences of the Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish conflict-confrontational interaction in the Lviv, Stanislav and Ternopil Voivodeships in the autumn of 1939 under the conditions of planting the Stalinist totalitarian regime. It also characterizes the degree and nature of mutual aggressiveness among the part of the active national-political and socially oriented Ukrainian and Polish population of Western Ukraine in the context of the expansion of German aggression against the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It indicates the ideological and propaganda principles for the preparation of the Red Army’s entry into Lviv, Stanislav and Ternopil Voivodeships of Poland on September 17, 1939. The main models of the attitude to the Soviet authorities of the various national communities of Eastern Galicia in the autumn of 1939 are described. Furthermore, the size of the armed struggle between Ukrainians and Poles in the conditions of the collapse of the Polish state and the preparation of the Red Army’s entry into Western Ukraine are shown, as well as the specific propaganda-manipulative instruments of the influence of Stalin’s totalitarian regime on the population of the Western Ukrainian region in the process of its inclusion in the USSR. The paper also indicates the consequences of destructive information-psychological diktat on the public consciousness and historical memory of the Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish population of the former Lviv, Stanislav and Ternopil Voivodeships of pre-war Poland.

Informational and Psychological Influence on Student Youth in the Conditions of the Information-Psychological War

Peculiarities of informational and psychological influence on social consciousness as a destructive tool in the conditions of conducting the information-psychological war are considered in the article. The danger of informational and psychological influence on the citizens’ consciousness is that such influence changes the normal behavior of people, their reactions to the surrounding world. It makes the person's psyche vulnerable and encourages the individual to destructive actions against society. This is a danger not only for the psychological state of an individual member of society, but also for the whole country. The purpose of the study is to reveal the peculiarities of informational and psychological influence on social consciousness in the conditions of the information-psychological war. The research was conducted using the following methods: methods of mathematical statistics, experiment, prosopographical method. It was proved that the verification of information received from the media is not verifiable by representatives of student youth on the basis of the survey. Informational and psychological influence is an important tool for conducting the information-psychological wars and operations. It is seriously detrimental to social consciousness. Young people need special protection because the future of the country depends on them. It is noted that there is a need to develop mechanisms for protecting young people from negative informational and psychological influence. The media must submit proven information in a dosed form using a simple vocabulary. Government agencies should develop rules of work in the Internet space of the state, which will help to protect society as a whole, and student youth in particular, from the negative informational and psychological influence.

Linguistics of information-psychological war in the making: methodological heterogeneity and first results

The paper focuses on theoretical and methodological aspects of the development of one of the latest trends in Russian discourse studies – linguistics of information-psychological war. The analysis involves publications, retrieved from Russian electronic library (“Elibrary”) under a thematic subject heading "Linguistics" and "Mass communication", all of which being dedicated to the problems of information confrontation. The main objective is to specify how linguistics of information-psychological war has been developing since 2017, when the research trend was initially proposed by a group of Siberian scholars. Minor task is to determine, what ideas constitute a common around for Russian scholars, that try to unravel the linguistic mechanisms, underlying the complex phenomenon of information-psychological war. Analytical-descriptive approach, including methods of observation, generalization, and interpretation, is employed. It is argued that linguistics of information-psychological war has acquired discursive dimension. It features methodological heterogeneity, recurrence of themes, terminological variability, use of related concepts. It is proved that information-psychological war is treated as a construct, textualized in media discourse. The major theoretical and methodological problem is outlined, which relates to the absence of relevant criteria that could be adequate to identify texts as means of information-psychological war. The results can be used to extend the scope of linguistics of information-psychological war and to increase its capacity for working out the linguistic bases of counteraction to threats in media sphere.

Features of information psychological war in translated fiction

The article raises the question of the involvement of modern foreign fiction, offered to the Russian reader in the translation into Russian, to the phenomenon of information psychological war. The conditions of selection of the material for analysis are the same as in the previous publications of the author based on the material of Russian literature (see the electronic journal “Ecology of language and communicative practice” 2015, no 2; 2016, no 1; 2017, no3,4; 2018, no 1; 2019, no 1). The method of solving the problem is linguoideological analysis for the features/symptoms of information psychological war. The dominant targets are the aggressiveness of the Russian foreign policy; the results of the Second World War; the mentality of the Russian people (traditional laziness, theft, drunkenness, physical and moral incleanliness). A natural question is whether it is necessary to translate and print, and therefore, to popularize the foreign works that form and convey a negative, namely, totally negative image of our country. There is a complete coincidence of the dominant features and the totally negative vector of evaluation in the discursive practices of information psychological war in the studied Russian and translated texts. A paradoxical situation: some modern Russian writers create no less negative image of Russia in its present and historical perspective than foreign authors: the author is ours, a stereotype is the others’

Information psychological war as discursive practice on the pages of fiction

The purpose of the article is to outline the specifics of the discourse of information psychological war on the material of fiction.As a result of consistent interpretation of the key concepts as the basis of the linguo-philosophical aspect of the study, it is concluded that information psychological war as a socio-and linguo-cultural phenomenon responds to all the features and categories of discourse. The object of this research consists in the implementation of the information psychological war subtype, the dominant attribute of which is the material / object of study (a combination of aesthetic function with a number of social ones) and the content heterogeneity of the text as a condition for the potential realization of any discourses in it. The author raises an is sue about the scientific and ethical pro and contra of the research of fiction from the information psychological war perspective. The conclusion is made about the necessity of introducing the factor of “degree” of confrontation / struggle and, accordingly, the study of the fiction for the individual symptoms / features of information psychological war.The conditions and criteria for their establishment in specific practices are formulated.The article presents the targets of information psychological war in the discursive practices studied earlier by the author.In conclusion, the criteria for the selection of fiction texts in the aspect of information psychological war and the criteria for distinguishing information psychological war symptoms from social criticism are summarized.

Speech techniques of discreditation of marshal of the soviet union G.K. Zhukov in modern mass media

Three groups of speech techniques of discreditation of marshal G.K. Zhukov in modern mass media are discussed in the article. These techniques include suggestion of lingvotoxin (word label, negative epithet, transformed nickname) into the consciousness of the addressee; removing the suspended assertion (statements about the state of another person, the method of pluralization, etc.); linguo-perverse image distortion (linguo-versatile inversion, shift of semantic accent when describing an event, selection of discrediting quotes). In total these techniques are used to create and / or maintain the black myth about marshal G.K. Zhukov as a man of cruel, not genial, vain, depraved and prone to profit. According to the author’s observations, informational attacks on Zhukov have been conducted since the beginning of the twenty-first century and they are the most frequent in the last two years. It is noted that attempts to form a negative-evaluative attitude to a heroic symbol can inflict cultural trauma on society as an experience that destroys historical memory and makes it vulnerable in an information-psychological war. The research results are important for those who are interested in the issues of national security of Russia.

Symptoms of information-psychological war in the works by L.E. Ulitskaya

Translated into dozens of foreign languages, the works by L.E. Ulitskaya are very popular and have become the object of literary studies. This article aims at the linguo-ideological research of the writer’s works. As the source of the material, three collections were selected including fiction and non-fiction works of the writer. The direct object of the study is represented by the concepts of social significance in their textual axiological modality. Their combination shows the writer's vision of life in Soviet and contemporary Russia. The research methodology includes conceptual analysis with the technology of discursive-interpretational analysis, the traditional analytical-descriptive method, the method of metaphorical modeling, the elements of component and content analysis, field methods. The analysis revealed a totally negative assessment vector related to the Soviet, contemporary, and also future existence of the country and the state. The types of negativity are reflected by the category of subjective modality. The results of the study give the right to assert the presence in the writer’s works the signs / symptoms of information-psychological war, which means the need for careful selection of her texts when recommending them for inclusion into the educational programme.

Considering validity of a literary text analysis in the aspect of information-psychological war

Considering validity of a literary text analysis in the aspect of information-psychological war

Family as target of information-psychological war

Family as target of information-psychological war

Strategies and tactics of the information-psychological war in the context of russian-british relations

Strategies and tactics of the information-psychological war in the context of russian-british relations

Discourse-world of information-psychological war in the british online media

Discourse-world of information-psychological war in the british online media

The system of providing authorship protection for digital photo

In conditions of information-psychological war against Ukraine, the neсessity in creating new means of authenticity and proof of information authorship on digital carrier increases. In manipulative materials which have a connect with different areas of our life and distributed in the Internet, often alien digital photos with the context, which distorts the real events according to interested in successful manipulation side. Mechanisms of operational confirmation (determination) of authorship can properly estimate the reliability of such materials as in social that in technical areas. The article presents one way to confirm digital photos authorship. The idea of this approach has a place in creation of certification and verification centres for digital photo. In the certificationcentre, the digital photo is analyzed and the unique digital sequence is made, this sequence is saved in database of certification centre. In the situation when you want to verify authorship in verification centre of digital photo, the unique digital sequence of digitalphoto, which is verified, is comparedwith data based in database of certification centre and the decision about authorship of digital photo is made. Therefore, in this article the existing approaches for authorship protection are analyzed. The new system of authorship protection, which consists of certification and verification centres, is offered. In addition, information processes, which have a place in centres and rules of decision making about digital photo authorship, are presented. This approach can also be used for the forensics examination procedures and other areas of digital photos application (e.g., photo stocks, social networks, web sources, which use photographic content).