Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis

Name: Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis
Author: Ünver, Hamid Akın, Kurnaz, A.

İsim	Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis
Yazar	Ünver, Hamid Akın, Kurnaz, A.
Basım Tarihi:	2022-07
Basım Yeri	- Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation
Konu	Nato, Russia, Securitization, Structural topic model, Text analysis
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	2146-7757
Kayıt Numarası	27703b8a-35ea-4bc1-87d9-770813b50b5f
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2022-07
Örnek Metin	Following the Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of politicians, diplomats, and civil society leaders identify disinformation and fake news as primary problems in both domestic and foreign policy contexts. But how do security institutions define disinformation and fake news in foreign and security policies, and how do their securitization strategies change over years? Using computational methods, this article explores 238,452 tweets from official NATO and affiliated accounts, as well as more than 2,000 NATO texts, news statements, and publications since January 2014, presenting an unsupervised structural topic model (stm) analysis to investigate the main thematic and discursive contexts of these texts. The study finds that NATO’s threat discourse and securitization strategies are heavily influenced by the US’ political lexicon, and that the organization’s word choice changes based on their likelihood of mobilizing alliance resources and cohesion. In addition, the study suggests that the recent disinformation agenda is, in fact, a continuity of NATO’s long-standing Russiafocused securitization strategy and their attempt to mobilize the Baltic states and Poland in support of NATO’s mission.
DOI	10.20991/allazimuth.1110500
Cilt	11

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Securitization of disinformation in NATO’s lexicon: A computational text analysis

Yazar Ünver, Hamid Akın, Kurnaz, A.

Basım Tarihi 2022-07

Basım Yeri - Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Konu Nato, Russia, Securitization, Structural topic model, Text analysis

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 2146-7757

Kayıt Numarası 27703b8a-35ea-4bc1-87d9-770813b50b5f

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2022-07

Örnek Metin Following the Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of politicians, diplomats, and civil society leaders identify disinformation and fake news as primary problems in both domestic and foreign policy contexts. But how do security institutions define disinformation and fake news in foreign and security policies, and how do their securitization strategies change over years? Using computational methods, this article explores 238,452 tweets from official NATO and affiliated accounts, as well as more than 2,000 NATO texts, news statements, and publications since January 2014, presenting an unsupervised structural topic model (stm) analysis to investigate the main thematic and discursive contexts of these texts. The study finds that NATO’s threat discourse and securitization strategies are heavily influenced by the US’ political lexicon, and that the organization’s word choice changes based on their likelihood of mobilizing alliance resources and cohesion. In addition, the study suggests that the recent disinformation agenda is, in fact, a continuity of NATO’s long-standing Russiafocused securitization strategy and their attempt to mobilize the Baltic states and Poland in support of NATO’s mission.

DOI 10.20991/allazimuth.1110500

Cilt 11