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Digital Disinformation Computational Analysis of Culture and Conspiracy Theories in Russia and Eastern Europe
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Digital Disinformation [electronic resource] : Computational Analysis of Culture and Conspiracy Theories in Russia and Eastern Europe / by Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew.
ISBN
9783031288357
Edition
1st ed. 2023.
Publication
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XVIII, 457 p.) 220 illus., 171 illus. in color.
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Summary
This book uniquely combines the authors' personal experiences, deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia and the former USSR, and interest and experience with language and computational analysis, to shed light on a highly contemporary question: what is motivating conflict and unrest in Russia and its surrounding countries? How does Russian government suppression of information manifest in practice today, and how does it fit into the historical cultural pattern for Russia? The authors take a computational look at social and traditional media in the original languages, from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and the English-speaking world, to glean insights and separate fact from fiction. This book helps readers interested in Eastern Europe to 'take the temperature' of the region today, but it is also of interest to readers in the policy and analysis community, because it offers a template, an analytical 'how-to' guide which aims to follow in the footsteps of CIA author Richards Heuer's 'Psychology of Intelligence Analysis', to show how state-of-the-art computational analysis techniques could be applied to similar problems in other topic areas, with the human analyst and computational techniques each working together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
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Language
English
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June 09, 2023
Contents
Information Maneuvers in and around Ukraine: What is Really Driving Conflict with Russia?
Background
Issues surrounding Ukraine
What does social media say about the issues?
Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications
Information Maneuvers in the Baltic region
A distillation of multiple threat assessments and perspectives
Analysis of social media landscape
Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications
Information Maneuvers in and around Poland: Historical Revisionism and Rule of Law
Background
Current issues surrounding Poland
Analysis of social media landscape in Poland versus East Slavdom
Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications
References
Information Maneuvers for Soviet Union 2.0
Background
Features of everyday Soviet life in the twentieth century
Social media analysis
Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications
Finding and Analyzing Information Maneuvers on the Fringe
Fringe narratives: an illustrative example involving Russia and its Eurasian ambitions
The 'brotherhood of nations' - a historical pattern, not an anomaly
Eurasian integration: coming in the near future?
How can we analyze fringe beliefs?
Demonstration and technical implementation
Conclusions
Russian media narratives on Ukraine in 2022:a computational analysis
Background
Data used for this report, and method of collection
Our approach: signal processing (and SVD) fundamentals
Key narratives in 2022 in Russian media
What's 'mainstream' and what's 'fringe' in Russian media?
How topics changed over time in Russian media
Conclusions.
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