CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Ushijima de la Fuente, Sonia |
|---|---|
| Title | Living In A World Risk Society The Case Of Social Media As A Risk |
| Summary | This thesis will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an “umbrella term” in order to later explain the terms “hybrid threat,” “hybrid warfare,” and “social media” and its conceptual linkage to the definition of risk. To this end, the literature on risk will rely heavily on Ulrich Beck’s risk society thesis, but also on other views of risk as well as James Der Derian’s virtual theory, and it will be argued that social media constitutes a risk. Furthermore, Beck’s approach to the concept of “reflexive modernity” and the concept of “risk management” by other scholars will be illustrated using the case of NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence and its management of social media risk in order to explain the effect of risks in the international level. It will be argued that state actors, namely Russia, have capitalized on this social media risk and as a result have challenged the world order of neoliberal, universalist socio-political projects of good order. What we are currently witnessing is the end of “The end of History” and the challenge to Western ways of life by alternative order projects. |
| Supervisor | Alexander Astrov |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/ushijima_sonia.pdf |
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