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What is Sharp Power

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
It originally refers to a variety of cyber warfare being operated by authoritarian powers using social media and ICT. It contrasts with hard power (military forces) and soft power (socioeconomic and cultural means).
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Breaking Fake News and Verifying Truth
Kazuhiko Shibuya (ROIS, Japan)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch101
Abstract
How to distinguish between fake news or not? How to verify information whether true or not? The goal of this article is to review online fact-checking studies on fake news. The core of this matter is how to progress fact-checking on misleading information and vague knowledge. This procedure is crucially managed by manually or some computational mechanisms. The burden of proof should be evaluated truthiness by scientific ways included objectiveness and falsifiability. It never accepts neither solipsism nor agitating manners. In addition, it should take carefully to extract the most importance from the truth whether manually or mechanically, and it also reconsiders those backgrounds. For sound democracy, mediated knowledge brings the facts for citizens, and it should encourage them to ponder their directions of governances in nation. Using ICT, it should properly facilitate fundamental educations for them.
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Regional Conflict Prevention and Perceived Power Competition: Six Elements of Power
The ability of an IR actor to influence other IR actors through the possession, access, and exchange of information.
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