EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES ‟JUST SIGNED UP” ON SOCIAL MEDIA. AN ANALYSIS OF SECRET SERVICES AND SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2022.2.08Keywords:
intelligence services, social media, European UnionAbstract
In the last decade a large number of public institutions, including intelligence services, make extensive use of social media to communicate with citizens. Much scholarly attention is paid to the benefits of online communication and the way governmental institutions presents themselves online. However, we know little about intelligence services and their presence on social media. This paper addresses this gap in literature and analyzes what kind of social networks European intelligence services prefer. The article is based on quantitative research of the social platforms used by the intelligence services of all 27 European Union Member States. The findings indicate that intelligence services are present in the social media environment to a different extent and the social platforms they choose to use are different.
References
Bechmann, Anja; Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2019), “Unsupervised by Any Other Name: Hidden Layers of Knowledge Production in Artificial Intelligence on Social Media”, Big Data and Society, 6(1), 1–11.
Berkowitz, Bruce D. (1996), “Information Age Intelligence”, Foreign Policy, 103.
Bury, Patrick; Chertoff, Michael (2020), “New Intelligence Strategies for a New Decade”, RUSI Journal 165(4), 42–53.
Clarke, Amanda; Margetts, Helen (2014), “Governments and Citizens Getting to Know Each Other? Open, Closed, and Big Data in Public Management Reform”, Policy and Internet, 6(4), 393–417.
Davis, Charles et al. (2012), ”Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Research Directions”, Report printed by the University of Arizona and Claremont Graduate University.
Dover, Robert (2020), “SOCMINT: A Shifting Balance of Opportunity”, Intelligence and National Security, 35(2), 216–232.
Drăghici, Ion (2012), „Importanţa serviciilor de informaţii în identificarea deficienţelor de natură a periclita siguranţa naţională”, Revista Pro Patria Lex, 10(2), 282-292.
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2017), Surveillance by Intelligence Services: Fundamental Rights Safeguards and Remedies in the EU Mapping (Vol. I, Member States’ Legal Frameworks), Vienna.
Hijzen, C. W. (2021), “Intelligence Analysis in a Changing World, an Introduction”, Journal of Intelligence History, 20(1), 1–6.
Ivan, Adrian et al., “Social Media Intelligence: Opportunities and Limitations,” CES (Centre for European Studies) Working Papers, 7(2a), 2015, 505-510.
Janssen, Marijn; Estevez, Elsa (2013), “Lean Government and Platform-Based Governance-Doing More with Less”, Government Information Quarterly, 30(1), 1–8.
Kapoor, K. K. et al. (2018), "Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future", Information Systems Frontiers, 20, 531-558.
Lledo-Ferrer, Yvan; Dietrich, Jan-Hendrik (2020), “Building a European Intelligence Community”, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 33(3), 440–451.
Lueg, Christopher; Fisher, Danyel (2003), From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces, London, New York: Springer.
McLoughlin, Liam; Ward, Stephen; Lomas, Daniel W.B. (2020), “‘Hello, World’: GCHQ, Twitter and Social Media Engagement”, Intelligence and National Security, 35(2), 233–251.
Mugari, Ishmael; Chisuvi, Rudo (2021), “Social Media and National Security in Zimbabwe: Embracing Social Media for National Security and Addressing Social Media Threats”, African Security Review 30(1), 86–101.
Omand, Sir David; Bartlett, Jamie; Miller, Carl (2012), "A Balance between Security and Privacy Online Must Be Struck…", Demos Report, https://www.demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/intelligence-Report.pdf
Trottier, Daniel (2015), “Open Source Intelligence, Social Media and Law Enforcement: Visions, Constraints and Critiques”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4–5), 530–547.
Werbin, Kenneth C. (2011), “Spookipedia: Intelligence, Social Media and Biopolitics”, Media, Culture and Society, 33(8), 1254–1265.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Europaea
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
