Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

Altered Images and Deception Operations

Bibliographic Data

ID19930570
AuthorsScot Macdonald (corresponding author)
Year2006
Pages204
Publication date2006-12-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePropaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203967393
OpenAlexW4239387704
ISBN9780203967393
Open LibraryOL33658947M
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This is the first book to analyze how the technology to alter images and rapidly distribute them can be used for propaganda and to support deception operations. In the past, propagandists and those seeking to conduct deception operations used crude methods to alter images of real people, events and objects, which could usually be detected relatively easily. Today, however, computers allow propagandists to create any imaginable image, still or moving, with appropriate accompanying audio. Furthermore, it is becoming extremely difficult to detect that an image has been manipulated, and the Internet, television and global media make it possible to disseminate altered images around the world almost instantaneously. Given that the United States is the sole superpower, few, if any, adversaries will attempt to fight the US military conventionally on the battlefield. Therefore, adversaries will use propaganda and deception, especially altered images, in an attempt to level the battlefield or to win a war against the United States without even having to fight militarily. Propaganda and Information Warfare in the 21st Century will be of great interest to students of information war, propaganda, public diplomacy and security studies in general

Computer security · Information Warfare · Political science · Computer Science · History · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Deception (military science) · Information warfare · Propaganda · Psychological warfare

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