The Middle-East Region is known throughout the World for its ongoing political and military conflicts. Since 1948, the region has witnessed many forms of confrontations, but recent ones found new strategic orientations with the development of Web access and literacy, among local populations. Increase in networks speeds and democratization of Internet connections since 2005 created new opportunities for online mobilization and information warfare. Organized and efficient usage of Online Social Media platforms has altered the political landscape in many countries of the region, during the 2009 - 2011 period now called the “Arab Spring”. To clearly evaluate what is really going on in these new zones requires a clarification of several misunderstandings in definitions of information warfare and cyber-warfare. This research offers methodological directions to identify actions and measure their impact in the specific context of the Web. Research on infowar on the Web is still at an early stage and the question of the true nature of information warfare actions that target the Web needed to be answered at both conceptual and methodological levels.
| First name | Last name | Gender | Rank | Affiliated Institution | Country |
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| Stephane | Bazan | Male | Instructor/Lecturer | Saint Joseph University | Lebanon |
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Bio: Stéphane Bazan (CEO TomKeen – Lebanon) is a lecturer at Beirut’s Saint-Joseph University. He teaches Web Culture in various faculties (Economics, Engineering, Political Science) and created the Web Science and Digital Economy Master Program. He’s a Web education evangelist, an Open Data activist at ISOC and an active participant in the W3C’s Web Education Group. |
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