Winter 2024

The staff of the Journal of Information Warfare (JIW) are pleased to announce that we are collaborating with the Information Professionals Association (IPA) https://information-professionals.org/ to develop a new academic publication entitled, The Journal of Cognitive Security (JCS), https://cogsecjournal.com/. This is also an academic double-blind, peer-reviewed publication that will publish four editions per year of cutting-edge papers that cover all aspects of cognitive security. It will address the impact of the increasing volume of information available to anyone, the speed with which information is replicated, spread, and processed, and the ubiquity of telecommunications.

The Journal of Cognitive Security is concerned with influence and protection from influence of large groups of media users and consumers, both online and offline. Cognitive Security focuses on (1) the exploitation of cognitive biases in large public groups, (2) social influence as an end unto itself and (3) formality and quantitative measurement. The journal will include submissions that address the impact of the information environment on human decision making and on societal change and is a sister publication to The Journal of Information Warfare, where our staff will act as Executive Editors/Publishers.

Winter 2023

Early in May, 2022, the editor suggested that we have an issue on current conflicts, especially in the Ukraine and in the South China Sea. This special issue should be published in January 2023 to ensure the material was about a current situation. This is not much time normally from concept to full paper, but a number of potential authors were approached. Some could make the deadline; some could not. The end results were the papers in this edition. It was quite a challenge to produce an academic level paper about a current and dynamic situation without slipping into commentary and journalistic style. The papers that are in this edition are mostly about the situation in Ukraine, as this was the situation that was most dynamic in the later part of 2022. So, the idea was to provide the discipline of Information Warfare (IW) and its spin offs in real time—to make it realistic to the practice of real IW activity.

Fall 2022

This is a hybrid edition of the Journal of Information Warfare (JIW) with a number of papers that are peer-reviewed that focus on misinformation and disinformation campaigns as well as a few special papers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). We hope that you enjoy them. In addition, we are happy to announce that in 2023, in collaboration with the Information Professionals Association (IPA), that we will be starting a new academic publication entitled, The Journal of Cognitive Security (JGS). This effort will address the impact of the increasing volume and variability of information available to anyone with a handheld device, the speed with which information is replicated, spread, and processed to anyone with the means to access the Internet-protocol driven world, and the ubiquity of handheld telecommunications and the resulting interactions of those pressures on societal change. Cognitive Security is a field dedicated to understanding the role of influence amongst individuals and groups through application of multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder lenses.

Summer 2022

This latest edition of the JIW, brings an exciting number of papers from esteemed academics who address a wide and varied series of research efforts across the Information Warfare and Cyber Security spectrum. We begin with the paper from Bodström writing about “Strategic Cyber Environment Management with Zero-Trust and Cyber Counterintelligence”, which is directly related to many of the current issues that the Department of Defense (U.S.) and other organizations are dealing with. This is followed by Shen, Chen, and Tseng, who collaborated on a paper focusing on “Relating Credibility to Writing Style, Emotion and Scope of Spread of Disinformation”, which is very interesting on what works, and does not, for these types of campaigns. Next is Huskaj and Blix, with their research on “Validating a Framework for Offensive Cyberspace Operations”, and how these types of mission could be conducted in the future.