Digital Disinformation Computational Analysis of Culture and Conspiracy Theories in Russia and Eastern Europe
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 conf...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of 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