Michael Landon-Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Landon-Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Landon-Murray |
| SIGNATURE | LANDON-MURRAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Colorado Springs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy
This article argues that coursework in statistical literacy can improve the practice of intelligence analysis in the US. The article describes the gaps in current intelligence education pertaining to statistically literacy, explains how statistical literacy relates to the tasks of intelligence analysis, and offers a series of recommendations for statistical literacy courses specifically designed for future intelligence practitioners. The incorpor…
City council and national security: Oversight of local counterterrorism and security intelligence
Following 11 September 2001, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) established and expanded counterterrorism and security intelligence capacities to an extent unprecedented for an American local government. These powers necessitated new legislative oversight responsibilities. While the NYPD’s efforts to address terrorism have received scholarly attention, City Council oversight of those efforts has not. This study helps fill that gap by exam…
Making intelligence telework work: Mitigating distraction, maintaining focus
This response to a series of earlier ‘Perspectives on Intelligence’ essays on intelligence telework adds to the conversation by first reiterating the benefits of working remotely, highlighting challenges – mainly different types of serious distraction – that could undermine telework, and offering suggestions for addressing those challenges
Building Research Partnerships to Bridge Gaps between the Study of Organizations and the Practice of Intelligence
This article makes the case for better connecting the study of organizations and the practice of intelligence in the United States. The need for such efforts is outlined and a series of recommendations is offered. These recommendations build on existing Intelligence Community-academe foundations, as well as research utilization and ‘bridging the gap’ literatures, and will serve both intelligence performance and scholarship. While the focus of thi…
Disinformation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy: Impacts and Ethics in an Era of Fake News, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Misinformation and disinformation, often in the form of fake news disseminated on social media, are proliferating in the “post-truth” era, with profound implications for public and policy discourse, political accountability and integrity, elections and governance. The United States is grappling with an information landscape eroded by deeply flawed information from a variety of sources, including Russian efforts to undermine its recent presidentia…
Putting a Little More “Time” into Strategic Intelligence Analysis
Insights and models from the subfield of political development—timing and sequencing, temporality and long-term processes, and intercurrence—can improve the work of strategic intelligence analysts
U.S. Intelligence Studies Programs and Educators in the “Post-Truth” Era
Propaganda, spin, and untruths are nothing new in politics and public affairs. But, the scope and pervasive character of misinformation and fake news in what has been labeled the “post-truth” era is a uniquely alarming development, one with critical implications for democracy and public policy. Colleges and universities in the United States are working to adapt to this issue and it could be argued that media literacy education—with a focus on new…
Big Data and Intelligence: Applications, Human Capital, and Education
The potential for big data to contribute to the US intelligence mission goes beyond bulk collection, social media and counterterrorism. Applications will speak to a range of issues of major concern to intelligence agencies, from military operations to climate change to cyber security. There are challenges too: procurement lags, data stovepiping, separating signal from noise, sources and methods, a range of normative issues, and central to managin…
Social Media and U.S. Intelligence Agencies: Just Trending or a Real Tool to Engage and Educate
Social media use has become ubiquitous not just among individuals, groups, and businesses, but also government institutions. In turn, the adoption of services like Facebook and Twitter in the public sector has increasingly become the focus of academic study. U.S. intelligence agencies, however, have been excluded from examination. The potential benefits—engagement, education, and transparency, among others—are significant, and studying how U.S. i…
Moving U.S. Academic Intelligence Education Forward: A Literature Inventory and Agenda
In the dozen years since 11 September 2001, intelligence curricula have cropped up at scores of colleges and universities around the United States and in other countries. Accompanying this growth h
Thinking in 140 Characters: The Internet, Neuroplasticity, and Intelligence Analysis
This article argues the neuroplastic effects of contemporary internet use will have critical implications for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Studies have shown the internet and related technologies are fundamentally changing the way people engage information, which in turn has compromised cognitive functioning in a number of important ways. In the analytic segments of intelligence organizations, this phenomenon speaks directly to a—if not the—c…
Disinformation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy: Impacts and Ethics in an Era of Fake News, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Misinformation and disinformation, often in the form of fake news disseminated on social media, are proliferating in the “post-truth” era, with profound implications for public and policy discourse, political accountability and integrity, elections and governance. The United States is grappling with an information landscape eroded by deeply flawed information from a variety of sources, including Russian efforts to undermine its recent presidentia…
Big Data and Intelligence: Applications, Human Capital, and Education
The potential for big data to contribute to the US intelligence mission goes beyond bulk collection, social media and counterterrorism. Applications will speak to a range of issues of major concern to intelligence agencies, from military operations to climate change to cyber security. There are challenges too: procurement lags, data stovepiping, separating signal from noise, sources and methods, a range of normative issues, and central to managin…
Building Research Partnerships to Bridge Gaps between the Study of Organizations and the Practice of Intelligence
This article makes the case for better connecting the study of organizations and the practice of intelligence in the United States. The need for such efforts is outlined and a series of recommendations is offered. These recommendations build on existing Intelligence Community-academe foundations, as well as research utilization and ‘bridging the gap’ literatures, and will serve both intelligence performance and scholarship. While the focus of thi…
Moving U.S. Academic Intelligence Education Forward: A Literature Inventory and Agenda
In the dozen years since 11 September 2001, intelligence curricula have cropped up at scores of colleges and universities around the United States and in other countries. Accompanying this growth h
Thinking in 140 Characters: The Internet, Neuroplasticity, and Intelligence Analysis
This article argues the neuroplastic effects of contemporary internet use will have critical implications for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Studies have shown the internet and related technologies are fundamentally changing the way people engage information, which in turn has compromised cognitive functioning in a number of important ways. In the analytic segments of intelligence organizations, this phenomenon speaks directly to a—if not the—c…
Social Media and U.S. Intelligence Agencies: Just Trending or a Real Tool to Engage and Educate
Social media use has become ubiquitous not just among individuals, groups, and businesses, but also government institutions. In turn, the adoption of services like Facebook and Twitter in the public sector has increasingly become the focus of academic study. U.S. intelligence agencies, however, have been excluded from examination. The potential benefits—engagement, education, and transparency, among others—are significant, and studying how U.S. i…
Big Data and Intelligence: Applications, Human Capital, and Education
The potential for big data to contribute to the US intelligence mission goes beyond bulk collection, social media and counterterrorism. Applications will speak to a range of issues of major concern to intelligence agencies, from military operations to climate change to cyber security. There are challenges too: procurement lags, data stovepiping, separating signal from noise, sources and methods, a range of normative issues, and central to managin…
Putting a Little More “Time” into Strategic Intelligence Analysis
Insights and models from the subfield of political development—timing and sequencing, temporality and long-term processes, and intercurrence—can improve the work of strategic intelligence analysts
U.S. Intelligence Studies Programs and Educators in the “Post-Truth” Era
Propaganda, spin, and untruths are nothing new in politics and public affairs. But, the scope and pervasive character of misinformation and fake news in what has been labeled the “post-truth” era is a uniquely alarming development, one with critical implications for democracy and public policy. Colleges and universities in the United States are working to adapt to this issue and it could be argued that media literacy education—with a focus on new…
Disinformation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy: Impacts and Ethics in an Era of Fake News, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Misinformation and disinformation, often in the form of fake news disseminated on social media, are proliferating in the “post-truth” era, with profound implications for public and policy discourse, political accountability and integrity, elections and governance. The United States is grappling with an information landscape eroded by deeply flawed information from a variety of sources, including Russian efforts to undermine its recent presidentia…
Building Research Partnerships to Bridge Gaps between the Study of Organizations and the Practice of Intelligence
This article makes the case for better connecting the study of organizations and the practice of intelligence in the United States. The need for such efforts is outlined and a series of recommendations is offered. These recommendations build on existing Intelligence Community-academe foundations, as well as research utilization and ‘bridging the gap’ literatures, and will serve both intelligence performance and scholarship. While the focus of thi…
City council and national security: Oversight of local counterterrorism and security intelligence
Following 11 September 2001, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) established and expanded counterterrorism and security intelligence capacities to an extent unprecedented for an American local government. These powers necessitated new legislative oversight responsibilities. While the NYPD’s efforts to address terrorism have received scholarly attention, City Council oversight of those efforts has not. This study helps fill that gap by exam…
Making intelligence telework work: Mitigating distraction, maintaining focus
This response to a series of earlier ‘Perspectives on Intelligence’ essays on intelligence telework adds to the conversation by first reiterating the benefits of working remotely, highlighting challenges – mainly different types of serious distraction – that could undermine telework, and offering suggestions for addressing those challenges
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy
This article argues that coursework in statistical literacy can improve the practice of intelligence analysis in the US. The article describes the gaps in current intelligence education pertaining to statistically literacy, explains how statistical literacy relates to the tasks of intelligence analysis, and offers a series of recommendations for statistical literacy courses specifically designed for future intelligence practitioners. The incorpor…
Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Knowledge management (3 works)