Arab Spring Revolutions and Digital Technologies: Implications for Russia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201212.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Arab Spring, USA, Social Media, information security, strategic interests, national security

Abstract

Ensuring information security in modern Russia is a complex process directly affected by most internal and external factors. The political conditions in which this process takes place determine its specificity. The negative impact of digital technologies such as social networks is confirmed by the catastrophic events taking place in the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 and collectively called the Arab Spring revolutions. The purpose of the study is to ascertaine the impact of social networks on the state’s national security based on the case of the Arab Spring. Based on the conclusions, the authors will highlight the implications for ensuring Russia’s national security in current conditions. Social networks are the primary source of information for the population of most states and have become one of the main channels of disinformation and propaganda, is the main tool for influencing the consciousness of a large number of people, since through their platforms citizens not only receive political information but also form their political beliefs and have a chance to influence the course of the political process of the state.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruslan Shangaraev
AU  - Olga Timakova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/15
TI  - Arab Spring Revolutions and Digital Technologies: Implications for Russia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Digital Age: Traditions, Modernity and Innovations (ICDATMI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 107
EP  - 110
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201212.024
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201212.024
ID  - Shangaraev2020
ER  -