1st Edition
The World Information War Western Resilience, Campaigning, and Cognitive Effects
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
Biography
Timothy Clack is the Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and co-editor of the Routledge Advances in Defence Studies series.
Robert Johnson is the Director of the Changing Character of War Centre at the University of Oxford, UK.
