Innovative virus technologies in modern online-network wars

The article presents the problem of the research of media viruses’ technologies in the context of their use in modern information wars. The said technology is quite new, specific and narrow-profile, which conditioned the fact that it is practically not investigated from the point of view of science....

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Main Author: Курбан, О. В.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Ukrainian
Published: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 2018
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Online Access:http://periodicals.karazin.ua/sc/article/view/11674
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Summary:The article presents the problem of the research of media viruses’ technologies in the context of their use in modern information wars. The said technology is quite new, specific and narrow-profile, which conditioned the fact that it is practically not investigated from the point of view of science. The author of this technology is D.Roskhoff, an American media expert, who proposed this name and explored the practical aspects of the functioning of media viruses. Also, certain developments in this direction were carried out by T.Leary, who, in particular, researched the nature of media activism. Media viruses, as a technology for implementing instantaneous mass influences on the audience, have received special significance in social networks. In particular, a special resonance, at one time received a network project called «Blue Whale» or «Warm House», which led to a large number of adolescents suicide. Understanding the great resonance and the possibility of using, as information weapons, the technology of media viruses was adopted by specialists in information wars. A significant impetus to the development of media-viral technologies was received in the framework of the Russian-Ukrainian information confrontation, to which virtually all the leading countries of the world joined. In the format of this confrontation, memes, lols and media activism were accompanied by the most important and resonant events in the real world, serving as a kind of media support. At the moment, we can highlight such components of media viruses’ technology, such as memes, gifs, lols and mediaactivism. В статье представлена проблема исследования медиавирусных технологий в контексте их использования в современных информационных войнах. Указанные технологии достаточно новые, специфические и узкопрофильные, и этим обусловлен тот факт, что они практически не исследованы с точки зрения науки. Значительный толчок в развитии медиавирусные технологии получили в рамках российско-украинского информационного противостояния, к которому фактически подключились все ведущие страны мира. На текущий момент можем выделить такие составляющие медиавирусных технологий, как мемы, гифки, лолы и медиаактивизм. У статті представлена проблема дослідження медіавірусних технологій у контексті їх використання в сучасних інформаційних війнах. Зазначені технології є достатньо новими, специфічними та вузькопрофільними, і цим обумовлено той факт, що вони практично не досліджені з точки зору науки. Значного поштовху розвиток медіавірусних технологій отримав у межах російсько-українського інформаційного протистояння, до якого фактично підключилися всі провідні країни світу. На теперішній момент можемо виділити такі складники медіавірусних технологій, як меми, гіфки, лоли та медіаактивізм.