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"This is not a cyber war, it's a...?": Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Politics of Hegemony

"This is not a cyber war, it's a...?": Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Politics of Hegemony

David Barnard-Wills
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 1947-3435|EISSN: 1947-3443|EISBN13: 9781613506295|DOI: 10.4018/ijcwt.2011010102
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Barnard-Wills, David. ""This is not a cyber war, it's a..?": Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Politics of Hegemony." IJCWT vol.1, no.1 2011: pp.13-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2011010102

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Barnard-Wills, D. (2011). "This is not a cyber war, it's a..?": Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Politics of Hegemony. International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IJCWT), 1(1), 13-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2011010102

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Barnard-Wills, David. ""This is not a cyber war, it's a..?": Wikileaks, Anonymous and the Politics of Hegemony," International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IJCWT) 1, no.1: 13-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2011010102

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Abstract

This paper is a political theory analysis using the conflict, attacks, and ‘hactivism’ surrounding the WikiLeaks organisations following diplomatic cable releases as a case study to demonstrate the complexity of contemporary cyber conflict. This complexity is reflected in the motivations, identities, and values of a multiplicity of (often non-state) actors. Termed ‘the first visible cyber war’ this conflict (having already drawn in states, media organisations, banks and payments companies, and loose coalitions of individuals) is one where traditional metaphors of war occlude as much as they reveal. International relations and critical security studies have developed a range of approaches to international conflict that focus on identities, values, and normative frameworks. Securitization, hegemony, and democratic demands offer a productive way of understanding cyber conflict. Distributed denial of service attacks are interpreted as an attempt to establish a dominant discursive position and to construct a coalition around political issues

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