Vinogradova Y.A. Latin America Under a «Media Assault»: the Chronicles of an Information War

Abstract: The examination of contemporary information and communication technologies in the modern world drastically changes the principles and methods of administration and education. Today, it lies in the foundation for the revolutions in the fields of international relations and in the art of war. Therefore, one of the prominent tasks before Latin American countries and their defense departments is the usage of information to manage any conflict, because information may influence the perceptions of people. The methodological basis of this work is systemic, structural-functional, comparative-historical, comparative-political, geopolitical and cultural-civilizaitonal approaches, and the methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling and observation. Today, a sound strategy of information management enables a country to be victorious in a standoff. The forms of processing, actualization and circulation of information, such as the Internet, the «new mass media and communications», became a new method of conducting modern warfare.

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