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Jak rozmawiać o wojnie w erze postprawdy?
How to talk about war in the post-truth era

Author(s): Alla Atamanenko
Subject(s): Social Informatics, Russian Aggression against Ukraine, Russian war against Ukraine
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: post-truth; Russian-Ukrainian war; information confrontation; information counteraction tools;

Summary/Abstract: Over the past few decades, the term ”post-truth” has become a well-established term in the scientific and political space to denote false but credible information. Traditional examples of this type of public information include the election of U.S. President D. Trump, the Brexit information campaign and others. During the Russian-Ukrainian war, especially with the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the post-truth era did not end, but gained a new development, and information became part of the information confrontation. The aggressor is pursuing an active policy of disinformation of both its own population and the population of the target state (Ukraine) and third countries, using a variety of tools, among which the Internet and other media, as well as social networks, play the most important role. Ukraine and the countries that suffer from the Russian Federation’s information aggression must pursue appropriate information policies, from banning harmful information sources to refuting false information and providing their own. The research is devoted to analyzing the tools of information aggression and countering it. The scientific hypothesis is that information plays an important role in armed conflict, and a state against which, among other things, information aggression is perpetrated should develop tools to counter information aggression for use with both domestic and international audiences.

  • Issue Year: 42/2024
  • Issue No: 3 - 1
  • Page Range: 64-82
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish
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