Mass media as a tool of war and terrorism

W tej pracy licencjackiej opisane są problem terroryzmu w ogóle jak i terroryzmu w mediach, a szczególnie cyberterroryzmy i wojny informacyjnej. Została przeprowadzona klasyfikacja terroryzmu, jego głownych celów jak i próby zwalczania go przez państwa Europy. Szczególną uwagę było zwróćono na pojęcie cyberterroryzmu, przedstawiono przykłady współczesnych cyberataków na pańatwa. A także była podjęta próba opisania wojny informacyjnej w konflikcie rosyjsko – ukraińskim.The problem of the fight with the terrorism is nowadays one of the most topical. Modern terrorism is characterized by increased technical equipment high level of organization, the availability of significant financial resources. Urgency of the problem XXI century is an era of informational technologies and global integration processes. Informational technologies are used in almost all spheres of social life which makes the life of every specific individual more dependable on information. More often informational technologies are used for manipulating mass consciousness, influence and control people and for helding cyberattacks. Communicating channels are mass media and worlds Internet which create, so called cursed realty where is formation of subordination of consciousness using ideas, which propagandize by Mass Media which makes a person open and helpless in front of manipulative technologies. Information turns into weapon this way, rapid development of informational technologies causes not only new possibilities but also dangers that can destabilize people’s lives. One of these dangers is informational war and its influence on the mass consciousness Informational war is forced distortion of informational area with the aim of redistribution of roles, places and functions of members of informational area for reaching advantages in political, social, economical, cultural, religious and other spheres. The basic of the informational war is manipulative influence on mass consciousness .My bachelor degree course paper work consists of three chapters:First chapter – general theoretical, there is described a general conception and development of terrorism, classification of this phenomenon, tactics of fight and the main ways of fight with terrorism.Second chapters contains the explanation of such a phenomenon as cyberterrorism, there is described its classification, there are written the ways to conception terrorism. Third chapter describes informational war, ways of its realization and main aims. Special attention is payed to informational war between Russia and Ukraine