Essays about: "disinformation campaign"

Found 4 essays containing the words disinformation campaign.

  1. 1. Are you one of those who take children?” Child protection professionals views on the disinformation campaign - implications on the practice and for children’s rights

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Kim Holmlund; [2023-06-26]
    Keywords : Child protection services; disinformation campaign; children’s rights; Sweden; professional identity;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to analyse how professionals at the Child protection services (CPS) perceive the disinformation campaign, how they related it to their work and how they cope with the potential effects related to the campaign. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professionals at assessment units at CPS, and thereafter analysed through thematic analysis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cooperation With Disinformation Campaigns as a Social Movement Strategy : A case study on the connection between the disinformation campaign and the mobilization against the Swedish Social Services

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Simon Norin; [2023]
    Keywords : disinformation campaign; disinformation; grievance; social movement; mobilization; desinformation; mobilisering;

    Abstract : Disinformation campaigns are a growing threat towards democracy and a phenomenon that is important to understand in order to guard against. One part of the literature around disinformation campaigns that is as of yet not widely studied is how they can be connected to social movements. READ MORE

  4. 3. All Negative on the Western Front: Analyzing the Sentiment of the Russian News Coverage of Sweden with Generic and Domain-Specific Multinomial Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machines Classifiers

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : David Michel; [2021]
    Keywords : sentiment analysis; news sentiment; text classification; cross-domain sentiment classification; domain specificity; domain-transfer problem; transfer learning; knowledge transfer; support vector machines; SVM; multinomial naive Bayes; Sweden; Aurora 17; Russia; Russian news; RT; Sputnik; cyberwarfare; influence campaign; disinformation; fake news; propaganda;

    Abstract : This thesis explores to what extent Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers can be used to determine the polarity of news, specifically the news coverage of Sweden by the Russian state-funded news outlets RT and Sputnik. Three experiments are conducted. READ MORE

  5. 4. EU against disinformation : Understanding a modern anti-disinformation campaign

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jonatan Klum Stelander; [2017]
    Keywords : Disinformation; European Union; Foreign policy;

    Abstract : In March 2015, the European Union decided to respond to the ongoing disinformation campaigns by setting up the East Stratcom Task Force. This thesis applies theories of communication logic, disinformation-defence and EU’s normativity to develop an analytical framework that can theoretically and empirically enhance our understanding of EU’s campaign. READ MORE