Alicia Wanle
Biographic Data
| ID | 4910240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Wanle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wanle |
| SIGNATURE | WANLE A |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3032-8229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Pulling Threads Together
This chapter explores the information ecosystems of Athens and Sparta before the Peloponnesian War in 431BCE, where a form of writing was the major innovation for recording and communicating information. While writing had been around for a few centuries, Socrates still worried about how it would kill the spoken word, and his student Plato thought the outputs from it, like plays, would misinform the people. But messaging from a different type of o…
Participatory Propaganda
Rapidly evolving information communications technologies (ICTs) and increased connectivity to online sources have drastically altered the ways individuals engage in the public information domain and, in turn, become influenced by it. As citizens become increasingly plugged-in, a savvy propagandist can acquire enhanced means of swaying opinions around the world by combining tech-enabled formats of persuasive content, automated dissemination and au…
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work
Since 2015, there has been a huge increase in laws that ostensibly seek to counter misinformation. Since the pandemic began, this trend has only accelerated. Both authoritarian and democratic governments have introduced more new policies to fight misinformation in 2019 and in 2020. In authoritarian states pandemic-related misinformation provided a new justification for repressive policies. Questions of political motivations aside, as the continui…
The Audience is the Amplifier
Propaganda is changing in a Digital Age. What once was a top-down effort to the masses has through the internet become a participatory affair. As people increasingly “plug-in” to online services, a wealth of personal data aggregated by internet giants facilitates the creation and distribution of tailored provocative messaging, which savvy propagandists then push through online communities to unsuspecting target audiences who help spread persuasiv…
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The Audience is the Amplifier
Propaganda is changing in a Digital Age. What once was a top-down effort to the masses has through the internet become a participatory affair. As people increasingly “plug-in” to online services, a wealth of personal data aggregated by internet giants facilitates the creation and distribution of tailored provocative messaging, which savvy propagandists then push through online communities to unsuspecting target audiences who help spread persuasiv…
Countries have more than 100 laws on the books to combat misinformation. How well do they work
Since 2015, there has been a huge increase in laws that ostensibly seek to counter misinformation. Since the pandemic began, this trend has only accelerated. Both authoritarian and democratic governments have introduced more new policies to fight misinformation in 2019 and in 2020. In authoritarian states pandemic-related misinformation provided a new justification for repressive policies. Questions of political motivations aside, as the continui…
Participatory Propaganda
Rapidly evolving information communications technologies (ICTs) and increased connectivity to online sources have drastically altered the ways individuals engage in the public information domain and, in turn, become influenced by it. As citizens become increasingly plugged-in, a savvy propagandist can acquire enhanced means of swaying opinions around the world by combining tech-enabled formats of persuasive content, automated dissemination and au…
Pulling Threads Together
This chapter explores the information ecosystems of Athens and Sparta before the Peloponnesian War in 431BCE, where a form of writing was the major innovation for recording and communicating information. While writing had been around for a few centuries, Socrates still worried about how it would kill the spoken word, and his student Plato thought the outputs from it, like plays, would misinform the people. But messaging from a different type of o…
Political science (3 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Amplifier (1 work) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work)