(Information) war and peace? Cover Image

Război (informațional) și pace?
(Information) war and peace?

Author(s): Alina Bargaoanu, Cătălina Nastasiu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: disinformation; information eco-systems; propaganda; information warfare;

Summary/Abstract: For the past few years, the issues surrounding the disinformation, propaganda and hostile information campaigns have gained a lot of traction in public conversations, along side with concerns around the technological megachanges in the information eco-system and the migration of social and political discourse to digital platforms. The COVID-19 pandemic and the current information war waged against the Western political and cultural space in the context of the invasion of Ukraine have exposed these irreversible mega-changes, thus raising more fundamental questions in public and elite conversations in Western societies, such as: „is information peace the opposite of information war?”, „is disinformation a problem to be resolved or managed?”, „does the West have a disinformation problem or a functionality problem”?.

  • Issue Year: X/2022
  • Issue No: 2 (36)
  • Page Range: 27-33
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian