Johnson’s article about social media relates to both Baker
and Schneier’s articles. A section of Baker’s article states: Information
Operations are activities undertaken by military and nonmilitary organizations
to shape the essential narrative of a conflict or situation and thus affect the
attitudes and behaviors of the targeted audience. As you can see information
operations relate to social media because they do the exact same thing that
social media does: influence. Social media is a huge influence on today’s
society. My DTC 475 Professor Susan Ross helped write a book about social media
and it’s affects. The book had stories about the impacts of peoples lives by
social media.
Social media is the way to change lives, create opinions in
people, and inform people. Social media does however have negative effects just
like Information Operations may have. These operations to change attitudes of a
direct audience may affect a different audience in a different way. The whole
point of Information Operations promote the dissemination of information to
create counterinsurgency, but these operations are directed to certain
audiences just like all other social media is. However, the directed audience
isn’t the only audience seeing or hearing this social media or information
operations.
This is a video talking about the military and social media.
It also relates to the information operations and the different audiences that
are affected by this social media:
A prevention method so that only the directed audiences are
reached could be censoring. Schneier talks about how other countries censor the
internet so that the people of their country can’t see some of the things
posted by other countries. This would be a great thing for the military to do
when they do their information operations so that the targeted audiences
are the only audiences that they affect.
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