Digital (Dis)Information Operations

Fooling the Five Eyes
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-60179-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology

This book offers an interdisciplinary insight into the key debates around information warfare in the digital age and argues that transnational cooperation can mitigate the threat.

States and societies are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-enabled information operations. From efforts to divide nations, undermine public policy, manipulate elections, and generate social discord, malign actors use the online realm to wreak havoc on our offline lives. The book explores the digital disinformation dilemma that confronts liberal democracies, reflecting on shared socio-political challenges and solutions to contemporary information operations amongst the Five Eyes states and beyond. The work aims to generate a holistic human-centric perspective on the challenges of digital (dis)information operations through interdisciplinary insight into shared challenges and solutions to contemporary information warfare. Together, these perspectives enable us to more effectively identify opportunities to address the challenge and increase the potential to enrich international collaborative efforts to safeguard liberal democracies from threats to their information environments.

This book will be of much interest to students of information warfare, intelligence studies, foreign policy and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dowling, Melissa-Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Decoding Digital (Dis)Information Operations  Part I: Human Techniques of Digital (Dis)Information Operations  2. “Follow the White Rabbit”: Narrative Pleasure and Power in Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Campaigns  3. A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Countering Conspiracy Theories Online  4. Cambridge Analytica’s Capability for Influence: Is Manipulation Merely Big Data, Psychological Profiles and Personalised Ads?  Part II: Human Approaches to Countering Digital (Dis)Information Operations  5. Mitigating Microtargeting: Political Microtargeting Law in Australia and New Zealand  6. Move Fast and Fix Things: Designing Training for Understanding and Combatting Disinformation, Misinformation and Malign Influence  7. When WEIRD Things Don’t Work: Rethinking the Five Eyes’ Approach to Disinformation  Part III: Transgovernmental and Intergovernmental Initiatives and Imperatives  8.  Bridging the Sovereign Gap: The Five Eyes, Transgovernmental Networks, and the State in a Digitally Connected World  9. The Anglo Archipelago: How AUKUS and the Anglosphere are Shaping the Global Security Calculus  10. Constitutional Challenges in Combatting Disinformation and the Five Eyes Alliance  11. Digital (Dis)Information Operations: Lessons Learned

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa-Ellen Dowling is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. Her research focuses on the ways in which liberal democracy can be challenged, sustained, and enriched in a digitising world, and she is the author of Writing Russia (2021).