Narrative warfare is marketing gone rogue, using similar techniques to spread toxic narratives. Both marketing and narrative warfare identify vulnerable groups, align messages to their values and anxieties, and amplify content through automated bots and paid influencers on social networks. The goal is to make enough noise to spread the narrative widely. Defending against toxic narratives requires pressuring platforms to block such campaigns, inoculating people with alternative narratives, and engaging in counter-campaigns using similar tactics.
43. Narrative Warfare
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target
align
message
strengthen
amplify
chain
ladder
Vulnerable
Distracting/divisive/dishonest
Ad campaigns: Measure, adjust, measure, adjust
Bots, trolls, sympathizers, ads
Make enough noise to get picked up
46. Bloomberg is
1. Paying people $2500/Mo to reach out to their
networks and post his messages.
2. Flooding the airwaves with TV ads
3. Outspending trump on Facebook.
Discuss.
47. WHY DOES IT WORK?
1. Platforms, data and automation
2. Societal strife and complexity
3. Validation and participation from
unethical media and political
figures.
48. In an ever-changing,
incomprehensible world the
masses had reached the point
where they would, at the same
time, believe everything and
nothing ”
”
- Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism
51. 1. Identify and block toxic campaigns
2. Inoculate population
3. Create alternate, legitimate
narratives.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
52. 1. Pressure the platforms
2. Engage people
• We can target too
• We can make bots too
• We can run campaigns too
TACTICS
53. Narrative
Warfare Marketing
Links to more
[unhinged] material
target
align
message
strengthen
amplify
chain
ladder
vulnerable likely buyers
Distracting/divisi
ve/dishonest
Value, aspiration,
anxiety
ADS: Measure, adjust, measure, adjust
Bots, trolls,
sympathizers
Networks, repetition,
influencers, “paid, owned,
earned”
Links to stronger relationship, next
interaction
Make enough noise
to get picked up
Make enough noise
to get picked up
54. NARRATIVE WARFARE
- A sustained effort
- To convince populations
- To adopt a toxic narrative
- Or defense against this
Notas do Editor
https://www.prageru.com/
There’s emotional resonance, intellectual resonance. Positive and negative.
And this
There’s emotional resonance, intellectual resonance. Positive and negative.
There are dozens of definitions. As many definitions as there are definers. Mine, of course, is definitive.
The characters, the place, the time, the “boldly go where no man has gone before” thing, the tricorder and the communicator, the transporter, the computer you can speak to, but which oddly, didn’t talk back (I like this model, by the way) the elements of the gestalt, the physical laws of their environment.
Those people and context, in action – responding to a situation - that’s a story.
Those people and context, in action – responding to a situation - that’s a story.