Ozerov V. V., Nikovskaya L. I. Information war in the mirror of conflict theory. Social and political researches. 2022;4(17):33-47. (In Russ). http: ...

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Abstract

The problems of information wars are becoming especially relevant in the context of the problems of the formation of a digital-network society and the increasingly complex geopolitical contour of the development of world processes. It is shown that information wars are conducted with the help of such a specific means as information and as such can act as part of geopolitical, military, socio-economic conflicts, and can also be deployed independently. The concept of information warfare means an operation carried out in order to gain an information advantage over the enemy. It consists in controlling and protecting the personal information space, disposing of competitors' information and destroying their information systems. The consequences of information wars at the beginning of the XXI century revealed the obvious insecurity of sovereign states against a powerful information confrontation and the lack of effective measures and tools in the world community to counter modern information wars. The intensification of information wars is largely connected with the emergence of the phenomenon of new media, which are able not only to reflect the mood in society, to broadcast information, but mainly to form this very society through the value-semantic interpretation of political reality, ranking political facts on certain scales of their social significance. The new media reinforce the manipulative and propaganda technologies of information wars. Conflictological practice notes the increasingly increasing role of the phenomenon of interpretation. Interest in the information war has increased significantly due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014. At that time, the Anglo-Saxon media began an intensified campaign to create an image of the enemy in the face of our country, which poses a threat to the rules-based world order. However, the Anglo-Saxon elite in a short time, strengthening the informational and psychological impact on the Russian world, introducing into circulation a package of measures called culture of cancellation, did the impossible, it significantly consolidated Russian society.