Novel technologies and Geopolitical Strategies: Disinformation Narratives in the Countries of the Visegrád Group

Q2 Social Sciences

Politics in Central Europe Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.2478/pce-2021-0008

Lilla Sarolta Bánkuty-Balogh

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Abstract

Abstract In the current media environment of growing information disorder and social media platforms emerging as primary news sources, the creation and spread of disinformation is becoming increasingly easy and cost-effective. The projection of strategic narratives through disinformation campaigns is an important geopolitical tool in the global competition for power and status. We have analysed close to 1,000 individual news pieces from more than 60 different online sources containing disinformation, which originally appeared in one of the V4 languages, using a natural language processing algorithm. We have assessed the frequency of recurring themes within the articles and their relationship structure, to see whether consistent disinformation narratives were to be found among them. Through frequency analysis and relationship charting, we have been able to uncover individual storylines connected to more than ten overarching disinformation narratives. We have also exposed five key meta-narratives present in all Visegrád Countries, which fed into a coherent system of beliefs, such as the envisioned collapse of the European Union or the establishment of a system of Neo-Atlantism, which would permanently divide the continent.

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新技术和地缘政治战略:Visegrád集团国家的虚假信息叙事

在当前信息日益无序、社交媒体平台成为主要新闻来源的媒体环境下，虚假信息的制造和传播变得越来越容易，成本效益也越来越高。通过虚假信息运动投射战略叙事是全球权力和地位竞争中的重要地缘政治工具。我们使用自然语言处理算法，分析了来自60多个不同在线来源的近1000条包含虚假信息的新闻，这些新闻最初以V4语言之一出现。我们已经评估了文章中反复出现的主题的频率及其关系结构，看看是否在这些文章中发现了一致的虚假信息叙述。通过频率分析和关系图表，我们已经能够发现与十多种总体虚假信息叙事相关的个别故事情节。我们还揭示了在所有Visegrád国家中存在的五个关键元叙事，它们形成了一个连贯的信仰体系，例如设想中的欧盟崩溃或新大西洋主义体系的建立，这将永久地分裂欧洲大陆。

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Politics in Central Europe Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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1.20

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审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE – The Journal of the Central European Political Science Association is an independent and internationally peer-reviewed scientific journal in political science and international relations. The Journal was established in 2005 as the scientific review that publishes scientific essays, book reviews and information about conferences and other events connected with Central European issues. POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE publishes politics, policy analysis, international relations and other sub-disciplines of political original, peer-reviewed manuscripts that provide scientific essays focusing on issues in comparative science, as well as original theoretical or conceptual analyses. All essays must contribute to a broad understanding of the region of Central Europe. Our goal is to give scholars from Central Europe and beyond the opportunity to present the results of their research.