Afanasieva, Y.S. Television broadcasting as a factor for the military policy of the modern states.

Abstract: Since the modern warfare is part of the “mediabased policy”, and it uses new instruments in order to create military and political pressure and to gain information superiority, it actively uses the mass media. This article is devoted to the study of television broadcasting based on various motives of lawful behavior in the legal sphere, as well as the methods of influence of on the legal conscience of people via the mass media in order to form anticriminal position in the social sphere. The author includes political analysis of television broadcasting as a factor in the political relations in time of war, military and political tensions. The author also singles out the specific features of the television broadcasting as the “weapon of mass influence ”. The author shows the possibility of the broadcasting resources in the information field of the network-centered war. The author then characterizes the functions for the television broadcasting at various stages of the military conflict, provides generalizations on the manipulative technologies in the sphere of television broadcasting, then offers the options for the protection of their influence, she also analyzes the Russian and foreign experience of television broadcasting in the implementation of the military policy of a state.

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