Myanmars military, the Tatmadaw, has been the dominant institution in the country for most of its post-independence history. After decades of military rule, it began the shift to a semi-civilian ...Read more >

Social media represents a shift in the way we as a culture communicate. By using Internet-based platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and You- Tube, social media provides new ways to connect, interact and ...Read more >

On Sept. 11, 2012, the Department of Defense published DoD Instruction Number 8550.01, DoD Internet Services and Internet-Based Capabilities. This DoD instruction can be viewed in the enclosure section at the back of this ...Read more >

Social media describes the different means by which people, enabled by digital communication technologies, connect with one another to share information and engage in conversations on topics of mutual ...Read more >

The Arab Spring spawned a series of revolutionary movements that are unique in that they utilized social media as an effective means to spread information and promote insurgent ...Read more >

In this paper, crisis is defined in the security context as resulting of human activities, technological hazard events or natural phenomena, and understood as the situation in which the priority values, interests, preconditions or critical functions of large social systems are seriously threatened, challenged, impaired or ...Read more >

In 2009, The Atlantics Andrew Sullivan wrote The Revolution Will Be Twittered in reaction to protests in Tehran.1 New technologies and social media have changed social, political, economic, and cultural ...Read more >

Social media describes the different means by which people, enabled by digital communication technologies, connect with one another to share information and engage in conversations on topics of mutual interest. Social media is an umbrella term describing a variety of communication mediums and platforms including social networks, blogs, mobile applications, and ...Read more >

The emergence of social media platforms as a means of communication and information sharing marks a fundamental change to how societies interact. This new form of media played a formative role in the organization of mass uprisings and demonstrations known as the Arab Spring that took place in the Middle East and North Africa in ...Read more >

Since its Independence in 1947, India’s security concerns have revolved around three main and equally significant objectives: the safeguarding of India’s borders and its wider strategic environment, the creation of a stable democratic political system, and the realization of a balanced economic ...Read more >

Social media has become an additional element within the operational environment within which nearly anyone with an Internet connection can participate. The speed at which participants can add content, truthful or not, to that battle space has forced the Army to change the way it has traditionally approached social ...Read more >

There is a vast literature on the potential for new technologies to create a Revolution in Military Affairs or “networked warfare,” but that is a discussion of the impact of military technology on the way the force itself can be ...Read more >

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content of military Facebook pages from the user’s point of view. When a Facebook member becomes a “fan” of a page, they are creating a very unique link to that personality, location or organization. By studying the usefulness, uniqueness and ease of use of the page’s content, we were able to evaluate the return on that user’s commitment. The study used DoD’s and military services’ own social media hub pages and a simple search to find 682 fan ...Read more >

THE CONTEMPORARY MEDIA environment continues to change at an ever-accelerating pace, faster than most could have imagined just 10 years ago. This acceleration has significant implications for today’s media outlets and the military. New media is a case in ...Read more >