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Digital Disinformation

Computational Analysis of Culture and Conspiracy Theories in Russia and Eastern Europe

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Authors:
  1. Peter Chew

    1. Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., Albuquerque, USA

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  2. Matthew Fort

    1. Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., Albuquerque, USA

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  3. Jonathan Chew

    1. Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., Albuquerque, USA

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  • Combines authors personal experiences and deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia

  • Helps readers interested in Eastern Europe to ‘take the temperature’ of the region today

  • Shows how state of the art computational analysis techniques could be applied to similar problems in other topic areas

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 1-6

  3. Soviet Union 2.0

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 7-68

  4. The Real Drivers of Russia’s War in Ukraine

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 69-129

  5. The Polish Information Environment

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 131-203

  6. The Baltic Region Information Environment

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 205-250

  7. Finding and Analyzing the ‘Fringe’ Versus the ‘Mainstream’

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 251-294

  8. Computational Analysis of Russian Media Narratives on the War in Ukraine

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 295-443

  9. Conclusion

    • Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew
    Pages 445-446

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 447-457
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About this book

This book uniquely combines the authors’ personal experiences, deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia and the former USSR, and interest and experience with language and computational analysis, to shed light on a highly contemporary question: what is motivating conflict and unrest in Russia and its surrounding countries? How does Russian government suppression of information manifest in practice today, and how does it fit into the historical cultural pattern for Russia? The authors take a computational look at social and traditional media in the original languages, from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and the English-speaking world, to glean insights and separate fact from fiction.

This book helps readers interested in Eastern Europe to ‘take the temperature’ of the region today, but it is also of interest to readers in the policy and analysis community, because it offers a template, an analytical ‘how-to’ guide which aims to follow in the footsteps of CIA author Richards Heuer’s ‘Psychology of Intelligence Analysis’, to show how state-of-the-art computational analysis techniques could be applied to similar problems in other topic areas, with the human analyst and computational techniques each working together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., Albuquerque, USA

    Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew

About the authors

Peter Chew is the President and owner of Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc., a consulting company in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a focus on national security. His specialty is in data analytics. Peter has previously worked in a research capacity for the U.S. national laboratories, and as an auditor for Price Waterhouse, where his assignments included field audits of Russian oil and gas companies. Peter’s education is a D.Phil. in Russian computational linguistics at the University of Oxford (where he was a recipient of a British Academy scholarship) and a B.A. in Russian and Polish language and literature at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London), where he earned distinctions in linguistics. Peter has authored and co-authored many articles, primarily in the field of computational linguistics. In the area of finance, where he has also applied his analytical skills, Peter is also a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner. Peter is fluent in Russian and competent in Polish.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Disinformation

  • Book Subtitle: Computational Analysis of Culture and Conspiracy Theories in Russia and Eastern Europe

  • Authors: Peter Chew, Matthew Fort, Jonathan Chew

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28835-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28834-0Published: 19 May 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28837-1Due: 02 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28835-7Published: 18 May 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 457

  • Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 171 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Media, Media Policy, Public Policy, Digital/New Media, Linguistics, general

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