Trolls vs Elves in Ukraine's War - Fighting Disinformation with Interactive Documentary

乌克兰战争中的巨魔与精灵 - 通过互动纪录片打击虚假信息

• 批准号: 2886933
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2886933
• 关键词: Trolls; vs; Elves; Ukraine; War

The beginning of the Ukrainian crisis dates back to 2014 when Russia formally annexed Crimea on the 21st of March (Grant, 2015). At that point, the Russian information warfare campaign was already in an advanced phase, spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda and accusing the Ukrainian government of Nazism and Fascism. Proof of experiments with military action in cyberspace dates back to the 1990s (Buchanan, 2017). However, under Putin's presidency, Russia became one of the most prolific state actors in cyberwar operations (Aro, 2021). With the number of trolls constantly on the rise, it was just a matter of time before a fightback began. Cyberactivism is a form of activism in cyberspace core to the development of the web (Levy, 1984), popularised by hacktivists from Anonymous (Coleman, 2014). Another group of cyberwarriors is at the centre of this research. Cyber Elves were founded by less than 20 co-founders in Lithuania in 2014, in response to the Ukraine crisis, and quickly grew to form legions in other CEE countries. As opposed to Anonymous, Elves operate within the scope of the law. They consist of three operating subgroups: Cyber Scouts investigating and analysing content on social media; the legal department of Elves in Suits; and Memetic Warriors, creators of memes - one of the most potent weapons against a numerically superior force of Kremlin trolls (Kleckova, 2022).The proposed study will develop an experimental form of the interactive documentary (i-doc, a synergy between a game and a documentary film) to explore the rise and struggle against disinformation. Through producing a web-based application dedicated to the fight between Putin's trolls and Cyber Elves in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, it will examine the role of the i-doc in the information war, and the technical affordances of narrative artistic interventions in their capacity to elicit change.

乌克兰危机的开始可以追溯到2014年，当时俄罗斯于3月21日正式吞并了克里米亚（格兰特，2015年）。那时，俄罗斯信息战活动已经处于一个高级阶段，宣传亲克里姆林宫，并指责乌克兰政府纳粹主义和法西斯主义。在网络空间中进行军事行动的实验证明可以追溯到1990年代（Buchanan，2017年）。但是，在普京总统任期下，俄罗斯成为网络战行动中最多产的州行为者之一（Aro，2021年）。随着巨魔的数量不断增加，打击开始只是时间问题。网络活性主义是网络空间核心的一种激进主义形式（Levy，1984），由匿名者的hacktivist庆祝（Coleman，2014年）。另一组网络战士是这项研究的中心。网络精灵是在2014年在立陶宛不到20个联合创始人建立的，以应对乌克兰危机，并迅速发展起来在其他中央政府国家组建了军团。与匿名者相反，精灵在法律范围内运作。它们由三个操作子组组成：网络侦察兵调查和分析社交媒体上的内容；精灵法律部门的西装；模因的创造者和模因战士 - 反对克里姆林宫巨魔的数字优势力量的最有效的武器之一（Kleckova，2022年）。拟议的研究将开发一种互动纪录片的实验形式（I -DOC和一部纪录片），以探索反对虚假信息的崛起和斗争。通过在乌克兰危机中生产用于普京巨魔和网络精灵之间的战斗的基于网络的应用程序，它将研究I-DOC在信息战中的作用，以及在其他们的叙事艺术干预方面的技术提供的技术提供的技术。引起变革的能力。