The Audience is the Amplifier
Propaganda is changing in a Digital Age. What once was a top-down effort to the…
How Do You Define a Problem Like Influence?
Myriad actors attempt to shape the information environment for specific aims. The capabilities enabled through…
The Changing Nature of Propaganda
Information has always been used in conflict to sway opponents and mobilise supporters. In recent…
Armed with Ethics: Communicating in an Information Age
This piece draws from a talk delivered at the Canadian Public Relations Society’s annual conference…
Diplomacy in a Digital Age
On 15 February 2019, the Young Transatlantic Initiative and the General Delegation of the Government…
We have a problem, but it isn’t technology.
There is an elephant in the room – and it is persuasion. Until we come to grips with its role in Western society, we cannot tackle issues associated with the shaping of the information environment.
How can we be at war?
“How can we be at war, if we don’t even know what we are talking…
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
This book is amazing. Full stop. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Whitney Phillips…
Snow Crash
At some point earlier this year someone wrote an article related to information warfare that…
Disinformation, Persuasion, and the Information Environment
At the 2018 RightsCon conference in Toronto, we had the opportunity to test an experimental…