Psychological Warfare Analysis Using Network Science Approach

In this paper, we analyze the concept of psychological warfare in an Internet setting and investigate its possible influence on the public opinion in certain areas researching a manifold of mass media publications. We have formulated the basic research questions concerning psychological warfare and suggested simple steps that provide initial analysis. In our research, we consider Twitter as a typical representative of the social networking phenomenon as it is one of most subscribed social networks. To determine points of view related to chosen theme an algorithm of keyword clustering is used. We propose a network science based method and performed the corresponding network properties analysis, which we further interpreted in the context of psychological warfare analysis.