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Jessica Dawson
Researcher at United States Military Academy
Publications - 6
Citations - 104
Jessica Dawson is an academic researcher from United States Military Academy. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Sacrifice. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 67 citations.
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The Future Cybersecurity Workforce: Going Beyond Technical Skills for Successful Cyber Performance.
Jessica Dawson,Robert Thomson +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the people who operate within the cyber domain need a combination of technical skills, domain specific knowledge, and social intelligence to be successful, like the networks they operate, must also be reliable, trustworthy, and resilient.
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Shall not be infringed: how the NRA used religious language to transform the meaning of the Second Amendment
TL;DR: The authors argue that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has capitalized on the religious nationalism that arose in the late 1970s alongside the Moral Majority and increasingly used religious language to shape the discourse surrounding the Second Amendment.
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These honored dead: sacrifice narratives in the NRA’s American Rifleman Magazine
TL;DR: This article explored how the National Rifle Association co-opted narratives of soldiers' sacrifice for the nation to promote a New War cultural message and found that magazine contributors retooled the traditional narrative to feature non-military protagonists, to differentiate the nation from the government, and to spotlight freedom as a sacrificial cause.
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How the Russian Influence Operation on Twitter Weaponized Military Narratives
TL;DR: The authors examined the use of military-related content and profiles in their influence operation on Twitter and found that 12.14% of the 1.408,712 tweets in English from 2009 through February 2021 contain military-specific content.
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Who Controls the Code, Controls the System: Algorithmically Amplified Bullshit, Social Inequality, and the Ubiquitous Surveillance of Everyday Life
TL;DR: In an era of digital surveillance, data profiteering companies have created a surveillance-based economy that uses algorithms to target messages and content that increase social divisions and inequality as discussed by the authors .