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Role of New Media in Information Warfare: Example of the New Wave of Migrant Crisis

The paper analyzes the notion of information warfare as a relatively new form of warfare. In the information society, information represents power, and the one in charge of distributing (processing and producing) that information has a powerful tool. Information is extremely important for the recipient of the message and represents new knowledge that shapes worldviews. With its mode of operation and possibilities, the media represent an interesting, easily accessible, and potentially dangerous social phenomenon because the audience creates an idea and attitudes on a topic largely based on media reports, journalistic selection and appearances of public figures or experts. This topic has received a lot of attention in recent years in both professional and scientific circles. The paper tries to identify certain features related to reporting in new media, as well as the dangers of consuming social networks, portals and other new media. In order to determine the above, an analysis of the content of selected portals was conducted in terms of characteristics and differences in reporting on the topic of the migrant crisis in the period from 1 June to 1 July 2019. The paper is structured into theoretical and research parts. The first part discusses the concept of creating public opinion through new media, the differences between new and traditional media and the context in which the media operate, as well as various forms of media manipulation, information warfare, media hybrid wars and the fake news concept. The second part presents an illustrative research that provides an overview of the media “treatment” of the migrant crisis on selected Internet portals, with a description of the methods and interpretation of the research results.

new media ; information warfare ; hybrid warfare ; migrant crisis

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