Cyberconflict

Cyberconflict

Literature Review on Cyberconflict and Cyberattacks

In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Artur Matos Alves, Anthimos Alexandros Tsirigotis and Athina Karatzogianni provide the following summary about the topic of Cyberconflict and Cyberattacks: Cyberconflicts can act as a “barometer” of conflicts in the real world (to the extent of hybridization flows) and can reveal the natures and the conflicts of the participating groups. The protagonists in sociopolitical cyberconflicts fight for participation, power, and democracy. Evident in the antiglobalization and the anticapitalist movement is an alternative program for the reform of society, asking for democracy and more participation from the “underdogs,” be they in the West or in the developing world. For example, in media movements, social networking through media links diverse communities such as labor, feminist, ecological, peace, and anticapitalist groups, with the aim of challenging public opinion and battling for media access and coverage. Groups are being brought together like a parallelogram of forces, following a swarm logic, indicating a web of horizontal solidarities to which power might be devolved or even dissolved. Digitality encourages a version of the commons that is ungoverned and ungovernable, either by corporate interests or by leaders and parties. Empirical evidence and analysis indicate also another type of cyberconflict and related cyberattacks is prominent: ethnoreligious and ethnic cyberattacks show that despite the fact that patriotic hackers can network, there is a greater reliance on traditional ideas, such as protecting the nation or fatherland and attacking for nationalist reasons. The other is portrayed as the enemy, through very closed, old, and primordialist ideas of belonging to an imagined community. In this entry, we discuss these two types of cyberconflict and cyberattacks with examples.

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Notes and References

  1. Entry about Cyberconflict and Cyberattacks in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2015, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom)

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Further Reading

  • Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018, Springer International Publishing, Germany)

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