Authoritarian Actors and Strategic Digital Information Operations : The New Age of Manipulation (Hardcover)

1. Goals, Practices and Impacts of Strategic Digital Information Operations (SDIOs)??Part?1: Elections??2. A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan’s Digital Parties: Beyond Traditional Politics??3. Dis/misinformation, Visibility Politics, Populism, and Digital Information: An Analysis of Pre- and Post-2023 Nigerian General Elections??Part?2: Conspiracy Theories??4. The Persistence of Informational Manipulation and the Appropriation of Emerging Events: Conspiratorial Publics??5. The Role of Social Media in the Diffusion of Conspiracy Theories and the Consolidation of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: The Case of Egypt??Part?3: Digital Authoritarianism??6.Manufacturing Consent through State Actors’ SDIOs in Thailand:?#Propaganda? 7. Turkish Government’s Domestic Digital Information Operations on X (Twitter), Democracy and Social Cohesion??8. India’s Strategic Digital Information Operations (SDIOs)??9. Media as a Tool for Strengthening Authoritarian and Populist Tendencies in Central European Countries: A Case Study of Hungary??Part?4: Transnational Dynamics??10. Iranian State-Sponsored Disinformation against the Dissidents at Home and in the Diaspora??11. The Influence of the Kremlin in the Media Space of Western Balkan Countries: A Case Study of Serbia??12. The Transnationalisation of Strategic Digital Information Operations: Turkey and India??Part 5: Non-State Actors and Extremism??13. Differences in the Utilization of Digital Tools for Information Operations between State and Non-State Actors??14. Alt-Right Ideology, Masculinity, and the Strategy of Information Operations: Understanding Digital Dissonance??15. Future Directions in Strategic Digital Information Operations and Warfare????