title: African Countries in the Epoch of Information Globalization: New Challenges in the New Age
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metadata.value: Pantserev, Konstantin A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Sidorova, Galina M.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Zherlitsina, Natalia A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T11:20:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T11:20:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Pantserev K. A., Sidorova G. M., Zherlitsina N. A. African Countries in the Epoch of Information Globalization: New Challenges in the New Age. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 590–605.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.411
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16963
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the problem of ensuring security of North and Central African countries
  in the age of informational globalization. Today there is a new up-and-coming social and
  economic order based on telecommunications. The central place in this new system of public
  relations belongs to information and communication technologies. One can observe the situation
  when the creation of the knowledge-based economy is turning into the main strategic
  priority of the policy of every country, which considers ICT as an effective tool, which can
  ensure a sustainable social and economic growth. But at the same time, it is necessary to keep
  in mind that information technologies, when used effectively, are able to destroy existing orders,
  to overthrow political regimes that used to be rather stable and influential. Based on case
  studies of North African countries, authors show key instruments that have been used in those
  countries in order to manage public opinion. Among those instruments authors highlight:
  1) aiming for bad expectations which entails the notion of an impending disaster and mass
  depression; 2) substitution of definitions which supposes that in order to create positive images
  of the opposition that resist the governmental forces, Western mass media calls militants
  and terrorists “rebels”; 3) implementation of mass dissatisfaction which means the situation
  when popular bloggers or representatives of opposition movements begin to promote the dissatisfaction
  of legal power; 4) use of biased materials. In this way, authors conclude that the
  effective resistance in the information warfare strictly depends on the presence of a national
  idea on the one hand and on the level of the informational culture of the society on the other.
  The last point seems to be the key element that can guarantee the survival of the State, especially
  if it pretends to pursue self-reliant political line based on its national interests and
  cultural values.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information security
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: African countries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information technologies
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: African Countries in the Epoch of Information Globalization: New Challenges in the New Age
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metadata.value: Article
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