Securitization of Disinformation in NATO's Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis

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dc.authoridUnver, Hamid Akin/0000-0002-6932-8325
dc.contributor.authorUnver, Akin
dc.contributor.authorKurnaz, Ahmet
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:29:37Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:29:37Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractFollowing the Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections, disinformation and fake news became popular terms to help generate domestic awareness against foreign information operations globally. Today, a large number of politicians, diplomats, and civil society leaders identify disinformation and fake news as primary problems in both domestic and foreign policy contexts. But how do security institutions define disinformation and fake news in foreign and security policies, and how do their securitization strategies change over years? Using computational methods, this article explores 238,452 tweets from official NATO and affiliated accounts, as well as more than 2,000 NATO texts, news statements, and publications since January 2014, presenting an unsupervised structural topic model (stm) analysis to investigate the main thematic and discursive contexts of these texts. The study finds that NATO's threat discourse and securitization strategies are heavily influenced by the US' political lexicon, and that the organization's word choice changes based on their likelihood of mobilizing alliance resources and cohesion. In addition, the study suggests that the recent disinformation agenda is, in fact, a continuity of NATO's long-standing Russiafocused securitization strategy and their attempt to mobilize the Baltic states and Poland in support of NATO's mission.
dc.identifier.doi10.20991/allazimuth.1110500
dc.identifier.endpage231
dc.identifier.issn2146-7757
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85135794608
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage211
dc.identifier.trdizinid1123068
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1110500
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1123068
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/22998
dc.identifier.volume11
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000812752000001
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCenter Foreign Policy & Peace Research
dc.relation.ispartofAll Azimuth-A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectFake News
dc.subjectSecurity
dc.subjectDiscourse
dc.subjectTwitter
dc.subjectMedia
dc.titleSecuritization of Disinformation in NATO's Lexicon: A Computational Text Analysis
dc.typeArticle

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