Digital (Dis)Information Operations

Melissa-Ellen Dowling is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Australia. Her research focuses on the ways in which liberal democracy can be challenged, sustained, and enriched in a digitising world, and she is the author of Writing Russia (2021).

• 1. Decoding Digital (Dis)Information Operations Part I: Human Techniques of Digital (Dis)Information Operations 2. “Follow the White Rabbit”: Narrative Pleasure and Power in Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Campaigns 3. A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Countering Conspiracy Theories Online 4. Cambridge Analytica’s Capability for Influence: Is Manipulation Merely Big Data, Psychological Profiles and Personalised Ads? Part II: Human Approaches to Countering Digital (Dis)Information Operations 5. Mitigating Microtargeting: Political Microtargeting Law in Australia and New Zealand 6. Move Fast and Fix Things: Designing Training for Understanding and Combatting Disinformation, Misinformation and Malign Influence 7. When WEIRD Things Don’t Work: Rethinking the Five Eyes’ Approach to Disinformation Part III: Transgovernmental and Intergovernmental Initiatives and Imperatives 8. Bridging the Sovereign Gap: The Five Eyes, Transgovernmental Networks, and the State in a Digitally Connected World 9. The Anglo Archipelago: How AUKUS and the Anglosphere are Shaping the Global Security Calculus 10. Constitutional Challenges in Combatting Disinformation and the Five Eyes Alliance 11. Digital (Dis)Information Operations: Lessons Learned