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  • Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

    How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation

    by Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a ... Read more

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  • Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability

    Relationships of Influence with Civil Society

    by Vian Bakir ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This book provides a definitive overview of the relationships of influence between civil society and intelligence elites.The secrecy surrounding intelligence means that publication of intelligence is highly restricted, barring occasional whistle-blowing and sanitised official leaks. These characteristics mean that intelligence, if publicised, can be highly manipulated by intelligence elites, while ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror

    Agenda-Building Struggles

    by Vian Bakir ...
    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry

    Edited by Emma L. Briant, Vian Bakir ...
    This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains.The rapid evolution of emerging technologies and data-driven persuasive practices has been linked to the spread of misleading content in domestic and foreign influence campaigns. This has prompted worldwide public and policy discussions about disinformation ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    by Peter Gill, Mark Phythian ...
    Over a decade on from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, intelligence continues to be of central importance to the contemporary world. Today there is a growing awareness of the importance of intelligence, and an increasing investment in it, as individuals, groups, organizations and states all seek timely and actionable information in order to increase their sense of security.But what exactly is ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Beyond Post-Communication

    Challenging Disinformation, Deception, and Manipulation

    by Jim Macnamara ...
    While many analyses have examined disinformation in recent election campaigns, misuse of ‘big data’ such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and manipulation by bots and algorithms, most have blamed a few bad actors. This incisive analysis presents evidence of deeper and broader corruption of the public sphere, which the author refers to as post-communication. With extensive evidence, Jim ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security

    Edited by Paul Cornish ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Cyber security is concerned with the identification, avoidance, management and mitigation of risk in, or from, cyber space. The risk concerns harm and damage that might occur as the result of everything from individual carelessness, to organised criminality, to industrial and national security espionage and, at the extreme end of the scale, to disabling attacks against a country's critical ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

    Edited by Howard Tumber, Silvio Waisbord ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    This companion brings together a diverse set of concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism globally.The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism explores how recent transformations in the architecture of public communication and particular attributes of the digital media ecology are conducive to the kind of polarised, anti-rational, post-fact, post ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Shaping International Public Opinion

    A Model for Nation Branding and Public Diplomacy

    Edited by Jami A. Fullerton, Alice Kendrick ...
    Bridging two «camps» in the field of international public opinion – nation branding and public diplomacy – this book presents a first-of-its-kind cohesive framework with which readers can better research, teach, practice, and understand the field. At its core is the introduction of the Model of Country Concept, which illustrates the array of factors, including hard- and soft-power initiatives, ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Politics of Disinformation

    by Guillermo Lopez-Garcia, Dolors Palau-Sampio, Bella Palomo, Eva Campos-Dominguez, Pere Masip ...
    POLITICS OF DISINFORMATIONDiscover a comprehensive exploration of the underlying theories of disinformation, and their impact, from leading voices in the fieldPolitics of Disinformation delivers a thorough discussion of the overwhelming problem of modern fake news in the political arena. The book reviews fundamental theoretical concepts of disinformation and analyzes the impact of new techniques ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • Emerging Transnational (In)security Governance

    A Statist-Transnationalist Approach

    Edited by Ersel Aydinli ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences. The resulting chapters provide original theoretical perspectives on evolving international security cooperation practices.Beginning with the premise that ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • US-UK Counter-Terrorism after 9/11

    A qualitative approach

    by Edgar Tembo ...
    Series series Contemporary Terrorism Studies
    This book provides a qualitative analysis of post-9/11 counter-terrorism strategy undertaken by the United Kingdom and United States of America.Since 9/11, both the UK and the U.S have significantly revamped their counter-terrorism approaches. The approaches apply, to varying degrees, three key policy instruments – intelligence, law enforcement and military force. However, the success or failure ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD