Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World

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The war for winning dominance over social networks and using that dominance to advantage is already underway. James Carafano presents an extremely timely analysis of the techno-future of information and the impact of social networking via the Internet.
Drawing on his extensive knowledge of history and defense strategy, the speaker will present a cogent analysis of what is truly new about the “new media,” and what is simply a recasting of human warfare in contemporary forms.
The history, present and future of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare will be presented in a lively, informative presentation, encouraging audience questions.

Presenters

James Carafano

VP, Foreign & Defense Policy Studies

The Heritage Foundation

James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, E. W. Richardson Fellow, and Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.
Carafano is an accomplished historian and teacher as well as a prolific writer and researcher whose most recent book is “Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World” (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), a survey of the revolutionary impact of the Internet age on national security.