La Generalista is the online identity of Alicia Wanless – a researcher and practitioner of strategic communications for social change in a Digital Age. Alicia researches how we shape — and are shaped — by a changing information space. With more than a decade of experience in researching and analysing the information environment, focusing on propaganda and information warfare, Alicia conducts content and network analysis, and has developed original models for identifying and analysing digital propaganda campaigns. Alicia is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College exploring alternative frameworks for understanding the information environment.
There’s no time like a crisis for propaganda, so it is no surprise that states and other influence operators are seizing the new coronavirus outbreak to better position themselves at home and abroad.
Democracy derives legitimacy from the ability of citizens to make informed and free decisions, particularly during elections, so the public should expect more from candidates vying for the country’s top job.
Propaganda is changing in a Digital Age. What once was a top-down effort to the…
Myriad actors attempt to shape the information environment for specific aims. The capabilities enabled through…
Information has always been used in conflict to sway opponents and mobilise supporters. In recent…
This piece draws from a talk delivered at the Canadian Public Relations Society’s annual conference…
On 15 February 2019, the Young Transatlantic Initiative and the General Delegation of the Government…
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, if we don’t even know what we are talking…
This book is amazing. Full stop. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Whitney Phillips…