[Air-L] Cfp_Russia-Ukraine Information Warfare

[MARIANNA NAPOLITANO]

Dear colleagues and friends, I would like to draw your attention to the Cfp
for participation in the open session of European Academy of Religion
(Palermo, 20-23 May 2024) on the topic of *Russia-Ukraine Information
Warfare*. You are welcome to submit your paper proposals until February 18th,
2024.
Please share it with colleagues interested in this topic. Further details
can be found here:
https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/it/accepted-proposals.

Interested scholars can send a short proposal including a title and a brief
academic biography to marianna.napolitano at unimore.it. The email address is
also available for further information.



Russia’s war in Ukraine isn’t just being fought on the ground and in the
air but also in the information space. The extent to which this war is
being waged and shared online appeared to be notable also compared to
previous wars: both traditional and new media are being used as instruments
of propaganda, news, and manipulated narratives. The aim of the panel is
investigating and discussing these information warfare strategies from a
religious, political and social perspective. Therefore, papers from a wide
range of disciplines (political science, religious studies, media studies)
are welcomed. The following topics are particularly encouraged:

- sources of state and church information strategies: how they changed in
the years (for instance in comparison to the conflict of Majdan)?;

- how traditional and new media helps in connecting (or not) people living
in Russia, in Ukraine and in the diaspora?;

- do traditional and new media show to be reliable instruments of
information during the Russia-Ukraine conflict? Are they reliable in
telling the reality of the conflict (roots, causes, story of people
involved in it)?;

-use and role of social media: how the war is fought on social media?;

-how social media support the religious experience in a time of church
splits?