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2020, Vision and Global Trends
A must-read to whoever is interested in understanding how social networks may brainwash people and be platforms for social engineering and psyops.
Anthropology Now, vol 4, no. 2, 2012
Digital Information Literacy Guide, 2022
Digital information literacy is a modern civic skill that underpins participation in democratic decision-making. Finland is renowned for its high literacy rate, and the teaching of multiple literacies has been integrated into current curricula from early childhood education onwards. However, on digital platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook, children and young people are confronted with a bewildering flood of information that they may not be able to filter out with the skills they have acquired in the school community and at home: claims about products by influencers, search results tailored by commercial algorithms, cleverly scripted propaganda and authorisations to track online behaviour or physical movement in urban space hidden behind countless ’yes’ buttons. It is therefore important to strengthen the digital information literacy of all the web users, especially young people, in order to identify how we are being influenced online.
This paper discuses the overlooked aspects regarding the underlying psychology of social engineering. Social engineering is a technique to access or obtain the sensitive information. Social Engineer use social networking websites to prey for potential targets. Online social engineering attacks are usually variant of traditional information security hacking programs such as malware, worms etc. Here the social engineers exploit the trust factor among the victim to obtain the sensitive and valuable information. But here the researcher will discuss about the social networking website especially Facebook. Social Engineering done through the social networking websites have many psychological affects on the user. There are many links(advertisement) which manipulate the user and brings out curiosity in them so as they open them and give their personal and important information to have their result for their psychological satisfaction. The base of these links are through social engineering and these links are basically to find the users liking, disliking, choice, strength, weakness, future, experience, personality and personality comparison. So due to such curiosity generating points they get manipulated psychologically. So in this paper researcher will discuss about the psychological aspects thoroughly through " Maslow hierarchy of needs " .
Argues with examples that systems as well as individuals can indoctrinate. 'Indoctrination: reply to I M M Gregory and R G Woods' in Journal of Philosophy of Education 4:1 (formerly Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society Vol. IV.) Reprinted in Snook, I (ed) Concepts of Indoctrination (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1972). Reissued by Routledge 2010.
Interchange, 1984
2023
The study of propaganda has been an ongoing topic well over a century, and in a modern context much of propaganda has moved online and with that some dynamics of how it functions have changed. This thesis studies the existing literature on propaganda, primarily the propaganda concept as developed by Jacques Ellul, and to use that to as a framework while modernizing it to the realities of the digital space. After which I go through 5 reports on hostile influence operations, particularly targeting elections within the United States, and to use a document analysis method to extract the relevant information and explain how Russian intelligence services structure their influencing operations and why they are structured as they are. While studying the theoretical framework of Ellul I found that it still provides a solid base for understanding influence operations, however some modernization was required. Particularly in the nature of group behavior online, which is different from more traditional familial group behavior. Ellul’s focus on the academic had to be abandoned as, within the digital space, all participants have the same vulnerability that was previously mainly present within academics. The main change however was about the individual’s participation in their own propagandization, notably caused by the discovery that many individuals will be naturally drawn towards propaganda through a psychological need to hear negative information. Through the document analysis of the reports I found that Russian intelligence services largely follow the propaganda structure as explained by Ellul, with the expected changes according to the modernized concept of propaganda. The focus on modern influence operations appears to be focused on actionability, causing specific behavior and creating people who, with the right impetus, will react in specific predictable ways. The theoretical findings provide some concerning implications about people and group’s potential for self-radicalization, even without dedicated efforts by a hostile entity.
Journal of Philosophy of education, 2017
This is a reply to Rebecca Taylor’s 2016 JOPE article ‘Indoctrination and Social Context: A System-based Approach to Identifying the Threat of Indoctrination and the Responsibilities of Educators’. It agrees with her in going beyond the indoctrinatory role of the individual teacher to include that of whole educational systems, but differs in emphasizing indoctrinatory intention rather than outcome; and in allowing the possibility of indoctrination without individual teachers being indoctrinators at all.
Security is one of the most important aspect in information technology era. Many service providers have put their effort in developing secure system for information technology service. Yet, in many cases the vulnarabilities are not in the system but in human side as a user. Psychological aspect of human is the most vulnarable in security since it can be manipulated, decived, and influenced. Social engineering is one of the most prominent technique in infulencing and manipulating human psychology and thought which is delivered through language. This research is amed at analysing the advertisment, pop-up, and fake email that used as medium for social engineering. The data are taken from internet which indicate fake information. The analysis is focuses on the linguistic features and sign used in the data. The data are analysed by using pragmatic identity method and referential identity method. The result of analysis shows that the deciever violates maxim quality in delivering the massage. Beside, the result also shows that the deciver develop mental space by employing several main issues for attracting target attention, they are sexual interest, financial interest, religious interest, and gaming interest.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2015
Aufklärung: journal of philosophy, 2018
Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
Revista Lexis, 2024
2014
Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação, 2011
Revista da FAEEBA.Educação e Contemporaneidade, 2016
Jurnal Ilmu Ternak Veteriner/Jurnal Ilmu Ternak dan Veteriner, 2023
Frontiers in oncology, 2024
arXiv (Cornell University), 2023