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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.
List of contents
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: 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: 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
