Browsing School of Humanities by Research Institute "Media and Communication Research Centre (MCRC)"
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Blood, bodies, books: Kim Newman and the vampire as cultural text.
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A Cross-discipline approach to countering 4th generation espionage
(Article)In 2018 the UK government introduced the term ‘4th generation espionage’ to define the hybrid threats exemplified in fake news. As events occur, even seemingly benign events, the rush to report and take charge of the ... -
CyberSyn to SkyNet: Security, Cyber Systems, and Society
(Article)I don't know if you've been looking at your phones or looking at your screens, but, um... Careful with your info (Dj Shadow, 'Urgent, Important, Please Read') This paper examines the cultural and political implications ... -
Dark Gnostics: Secrets, Mysteries, and OCCINT
(Article)You know, when I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and find myself living in a sixties spy series. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it? King Mob, The Invisibles. The astrologer and magician John Dee worked for Sir Francis ... -
Dissuasion, Disinformation, Dissonance: Complexity and Autocritique as Tools of Information Warfare
(Article)The paper argues that the cyber terrain offers opportunities for developing strategies and tactics of information warfare which are based on the techniques already deployed by anti-establishment actors: détournement, satire, ... -
English Apocalypses and Robot Skateboards: Warren Ellis’ Futures
(Book chapter)The 'Future' as it appears in any cultural artefact (book, film, comic...) is always polysemous; it can be prediction, speculation, warning, aspiration, and any number of other possible things. This chapter offers an ... -
Ha Ha Only Serious: Irony in Information Warfare and the Comedy-Cloaked Extremism.
(Article)“I know words. I have the best words.” - Donald J. Trump, 30 December 2015. The 45th President of the USA has been accused on several occasions of ‘stochastic terrorism’, that is, the incitement to acts of violence by the ... -
Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned While Researching Fake News
(Article)The misleading and propagandistic tendencies in American news reporting have been a part of public discussion from its earliest days as a republic (Innis 2007; Sheppard 2007).‘Fake news’is hardly new (McKernon 1925) and ... -
IW™?: 'Building Global Community', Facebook, and Cyber Security in the post-Westphalian Age
(Conference)I made a joke about a future featuring 'facebook.gov" in a piece for VICE Magazine years ago and then Zuckerberg writes a 6000-word manifesto pretty much pitching it. - Warren Ellis On February 16, 2017, Mark Zuckerberg ... -
Like 9/11 on steroids: AI in the age of Coronavirus
(Article)Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 is not the first such public health crisis we have faced, nor indeed the most lethal; however, it has occurred at the perfect time to foreground a number of key issues central to the ...