Author: Olesya E. Golovatskaya
Communicology. 2018. Vol.6. No.3
Olesya Evgenyevna Golovatskaya, department of public relations and media policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Address: 119571, Moscow, Vernadsky av., 84. E-mail: o.golovatskaya@yandex.ru.
Abstract. In just a few years, the information space has given to the humanity unlimited opportunities to search, analyze, use and create new information available to the selected or unlimited circle of persons. However, this phenomenon has generated new issues: whether such abundance is a boon, how reliable is its content, whether information freedom is safe and objective, in whose interests it exists, and whether it carries opportunities or a hidden threat? These questions do not have a decisive answer, as we are limited in knowledge of a number of information channels. For some sectors of the dynamically developing information space, there is neither clear legal norms nor legislative regulation, and even the conceptual apparatus is extremely poorly developed. For example, commonly used ‘information expansion’ (or ‘expansion of information’) still does not have an unambiguous definition, despite the fact that this term is actively used both in periodicals and in scientific literature. The article attempts to systematize the existing meanings of this phrase, the most often cited in journalism, educational and scientific literature examples of this phenomenon in the media, social networks and online resources, to forecast the further development of this phenomenon, and to define necessary tools of control.
Keywords: information expansion, information stuffing, information security, information policy, information space, Internet, mass media, communication, information, information confrontation
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For citation: Golovatskaya O.E. Information Expansion as a Hidden Threat of the Information Space and a Tool for Targeted Impact on Audience (term interpretation alternatives and effects). Communicology (Russia). 2018. Vol. 6. No.3. P.105-116. DOI 10.21453 / 2311-3065-2018-6-3-105-116.
References
Olesya Evgenyevna Golovatskaya, department of public relations and media policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Address: 119571, Moscow, Vernadsky av., 84. E-mail: o.golovatskaya@yandex.ru.
Grachev M.N. (2004). Political communication: theoretical concepts, models, vectors of development. Moscow: Prometheus (In Rus.).
Gukhman V.B. (2015). Information Expansion. New in Psychological and Pedagogical Studies. No. 1. P. 21-29.
Kolyada P.V., Kochetkova O.V. (2016). Contradictions of the Information Society. In: Proceedings of the VI International Student Electronic Scientific Conference “Student Scientific Forum” (In Rus.).
Kravtsov D.N. (2017). Information and psychological weapons as a means of ensuring the protection of national interests of the state. Communicology. Vol.5. No.3. P. 78-89 (In Rus.).
Lipkan V.A. (2006). Information security of Ukraine in the conditions of European integration / V.А. Lipkan, Y.E. Maksimenko, V.G. Zhelikhovsky. Kiev: CST (In Rus.).
Makarov V.E. (2015). Political and social aspects of information security (monograph). Taganrog: pub. S.A. Stupin (In Rus.).
Manoilo A.V., Petrenko A.I., Frolov D.B. (2003). State information policy in the context of information and psychological conflicts of high intensity and social danger: course of lectures. Moscow: MEPhI (In Rus.).
Panarin I.N. (2001). Foreign political information and modern diplomacy: A collection of lectures and articles by teachers of the Department of Mass Communication and Public Relations of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry / Ed. Y.B. Kashlev. Moscow (In Rus.).
Sharkov F.I. (2012). Political Communication in Modern Information Society. Politbook. No. 2. P. 121-130.
Best J., Harris S. (2013). Making Sense of Social Issues: New Images, New Issues. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Maratea R.J. (2014). The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism. Lexington Books.
Poindexter D.F. (2015). The New Cyberwar, Technology and the Redefinition of Warfare. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Bhan R. (2011). Information War – (Dis) information will Decide Future Wars. Educreation Publishing.
Communicology. 2018. Vol.6. No.3
Olesya Evgenyevna Golovatskaya, department of public relations and media policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Address: 119571, Moscow, Vernadsky av., 84. E-mail: o.golovatskaya@yandex.ru.
Abstract. In just a few years, the information space has given to the humanity unlimited opportunities to search, analyze, use and create new information available to the selected or unlimited circle of persons. However, this phenomenon has generated new issues: whether such abundance is a boon, how reliable is its content, whether information freedom is safe and objective, in whose interests it exists, and whether it carries opportunities or a hidden threat? These questions do not have a decisive answer, as we are limited in knowledge of a number of information channels. For some sectors of the dynamically developing information space, there is neither clear legal norms nor legislative regulation, and even the conceptual apparatus is extremely poorly developed. For example, commonly used ‘information expansion’ (or ‘expansion of information’) still does not have an unambiguous definition, despite the fact that this term is actively used both in periodicals and in scientific literature. The article attempts to systematize the existing meanings of this phrase, the most often cited in journalism, educational and scientific literature examples of this phenomenon in the media, social networks and online resources, to forecast the further development of this phenomenon, and to define necessary tools of control.
Keywords: information expansion, information stuffing, information security, information policy, information space, Internet, mass media, communication, information, information confrontation
Text: PDF
For citation: Golovatskaya O.E. Information Expansion as a Hidden Threat of the Information Space and a Tool for Targeted Impact on Audience (term interpretation alternatives and effects). Communicology (Russia). 2018. Vol. 6. No.3. P.105-116. DOI 10.21453 / 2311-3065-2018-6-3-105-116.
References
Olesya Evgenyevna Golovatskaya, department of public relations and media policy, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Address: 119571, Moscow, Vernadsky av., 84. E-mail: o.golovatskaya@yandex.ru.
Grachev M.N. (2004). Political communication: theoretical concepts, models, vectors of development. Moscow: Prometheus (In Rus.).
Gukhman V.B. (2015). Information Expansion. New in Psychological and Pedagogical Studies. No. 1. P. 21-29.
Kolyada P.V., Kochetkova O.V. (2016). Contradictions of the Information Society. In: Proceedings of the VI International Student Electronic Scientific Conference “Student Scientific Forum” (In Rus.).
Kravtsov D.N. (2017). Information and psychological weapons as a means of ensuring the protection of national interests of the state. Communicology. Vol.5. No.3. P. 78-89 (In Rus.).
Lipkan V.A. (2006). Information security of Ukraine in the conditions of European integration / V.А. Lipkan, Y.E. Maksimenko, V.G. Zhelikhovsky. Kiev: CST (In Rus.).
Makarov V.E. (2015). Political and social aspects of information security (monograph). Taganrog: pub. S.A. Stupin (In Rus.).
Manoilo A.V., Petrenko A.I., Frolov D.B. (2003). State information policy in the context of information and psychological conflicts of high intensity and social danger: course of lectures. Moscow: MEPhI (In Rus.).
Panarin I.N. (2001). Foreign political information and modern diplomacy: A collection of lectures and articles by teachers of the Department of Mass Communication and Public Relations of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry / Ed. Y.B. Kashlev. Moscow (In Rus.).
Sharkov F.I. (2012). Political Communication in Modern Information Society. Politbook. No. 2. P. 121-130.
Best J., Harris S. (2013). Making Sense of Social Issues: New Images, New Issues. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Maratea R.J. (2014). The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism. Lexington Books.
Poindexter D.F. (2015). The New Cyberwar, Technology and the Redefinition of Warfare. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Bhan R. (2011). Information War – (Dis) information will Decide Future Wars. Educreation Publishing.
