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Putin’s Potential for a Digital Personality Cult

The internet has changed many things including the concept and practice of “cult of personality.”…

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Notes from the Internet Apocalypse

What La Generalista has to say: Wonderful satire of our virtual world and the perils…

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Naiveté & The Net

Facebook continued to fuel the usual public outrage with news of a 2012 study on the emotions…

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Gone From Google… But Not Forgotten

Google has begun the process of removing links to “outdated or irrelevant” content in European search…

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About This Site’s Author
La Generalista is the online identity of Alicia Wanless – a researcher and practitioner of strategic communications for social change in a Digital Age. Learn more about her work here
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With a growing international multi-stakeholder community, the Partnership aims to foster evidence-based policymaking to counter threats within the information environment. Wanless is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring how the information environment can be studied in similar ways to the physical environment. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and was a tech advisor to Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder. Her work has been featured in Lawfare, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, and CBC.
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The Audience is the Amplifier
Propaganda is changing in a Digital Age. What once was a top-down effort to the…