ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE INFLUENCE INDUSTRY

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Contents
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Part I Theoretical, Conceptual and Historical Background to the Influence Industry
	1 Introducing the Digital Influence Industry
	2 Concepts for Understanding the Influence Industry
	3 Situating the Digital Influence Industry
	4 Techniques and Transformation in the Digital Influence Industry
	5 The Economics of Social Media Manipulation: Insights into Digital Influence Mercenaries’ Tactics and Impact
	6 Masspersonal Social Engineering and the Evolution of the Influence Industry
	7 The Analogue-Era Influence Industry and South Africa’s Quest for Reputational Security, 1948–1994: Buying Friends for Apartheid
Part II Micro-Practices and Social Impacts of the Influence Industry: International Case Studies
	8 Cambridge Analytica’s Online Disinformation and Propaganda in Nigeria: Does Local Culture Reveal Limits in Persuasion and Influencer Activities?
	9 Russian Active Measures in the 2016 US Presidential Election: ‘Useful Idiots’ and Intelligence Agencies
	10 The Kremlin’s Influence Industry and Its Use of Lawfare to Undermine Democracy
	11 Deception Supply Chains in the Middle East, 2010–2023: A Playbook of Social Media Manipulation, Disinformation, and Influence Operations
	12 Medical Populism, Nationalism and Parody: Unmasking Digital Dissent in Turkey’s COVID-19 Landscape
	13 Understanding Conspiracy Theories as a Business: The Case of Humanitad
	14 Digital ‘Guerrillas’ and the Influence Industry’s Impact on Latin American Democracies: Lessons from Chile
	15 Brazil’s Far-Right ‘Media Literacy’ Campaign: Delegitimizing the Press for Profit
	16 Weaponizing WhatsApp: A Case Study of a Digitally Amplified Institutionalized Riot System in India
Part III The Future of the Influence Industry: Rights, Ethics and Governance for Emerging Technologies
	17 Why the Digital Influence Industry Matters
	18 Ethics and the Future of Military Information Operations
	19 Trust, Truth and ‘Organized Lying’: A Critical Study of the Edelman Trust Barometer
	20 Local Civil Society and the International Influence Industry: Preparing for Elections with Practice-Led Research
	21 Combatting the Digital Influence Industry within Surveillance Capitalism: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Personal Information Management Systems
	22 Guarding Against Automated Empathy Attacks on Ontological Security
Part IV Conclusions and Recommendations
	23 Toward an Ethical Digital Influence Industry?
	24 Researching and Conceptualizing the Influence Industry
	25 Conclusion
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