| Abstract [eng] |
The relationship between cultural imperialism and information warfare (summary) Imperialism is the tool for the most powerful changes of the world's economic and social life, it is a source reaching the oldest historical periods. Voluntarily or by coercion the people of different cultures and different regions were fed together, thus creating new communities, based not only on sharing knowledge, technology development or making people`s worldview wider, but also promoting new social inequalities and rasing new forms of conflicts. In this paper, cultural imperialism is described not only as a spread of new ideas, identity and values in the context of diffusion, when the cultural elements of one nation is superimposed in respect of other nations. The modern globalal world now can be perceived as an information power management, thus providing with new forms of obedience at the level of cultural imperialism. On the other hand information warfare is a modern world construct, first introduced as the responce of USA Department of Defence to a increased information flows and the need to control them. Information warfare was meant to protect the state‘s information space and to provide the security from information attacs. Information warfare is one of the practical implementation of cultural imperialism. It influences the appearance of the "high-voltage zones", in which the transient, but intense and powerful information warfare processes happen nevertheless affecting all environment. This is the way to achieve dominance in the information-dependent country. So the cultural expansion of powerful nations take different forms in the context of intercultural communication. The object of this masters work is the relationship between cultural imperialism and information warfare. The aim of this paper is to find the possible relationship between cultural imperialism and information warfare and so one of the tasks to achieve that is by questioning several different scholars and trying to find the common opinion. The hypothesis of this master work is that information warfare is one of today's cultural imperialism means of disseminating the importance of communication. The tasks are raised as folows: to provide the definitions of culture and imperialism; to express their points of contact, seeing cultural imperialism as one of the constituent elements of intercultural communication; to examine the most obvious manifestations of cultural imperialism in the course of history; to disclose the impact of globalization and technological development on cultural imperialism and information warfare relationship. The methods of a systematic analysis of scientific literature, logical analysis and a questionaire were used in this master paper. However the results of this master paper show that the direct relationship between cultural imperialism and information warfare cannot be found due to differences in their definition and usage in everyday life. |
