Network wars were discussed at UrFU

13:44, November 20, 2014

International experts came to UrFU in order to study mechanisms of "network wars"

Nowadays “network wars” replaced the real wars. So the concept of “soft power" was a topics, which was discussed at the second meeting of the Expert Club "Ural-Eurasia". The meeting was held on November 18 in Ural Federal University.

French political expert Christine Dugoin-Clement delivered a report. She revealed the mechanisms, which are used to set up public minds in a desired way. For example, in most countries «funny» or falsified posts in social networks are not subjects to legal restriction, because they considered to be an expression of personal opinion.

But if there are prepared structure replication, and, according to according to Dmitry Popov, the director of the Ural Branch of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, they really do exist, then the private opinion becomes an accepted fact very quickly. And if you apply the technology of rapidly changing news occasions at the same time, the information attack becomes almost irresistible; mass consciousness is preoccupied by the recent news, and people lose interest in rational justification of a past history. The scheme works as long as there's interest in "hostilities", as long as there is the rhetoric of confrontation.

More detailed expert reports are available on the website of the Expert Club "Ural-Eurasia".