LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking. LikeWar explores how social media has certainly forever changed war and politics. LikeWar was named an Amazon and Foreign Affairs book of the year and “new and notable” by the New York Times.
Peter Warren Singer is Strategist at New America, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and Founder & Managing Partner at Useful Fiction LLC. He previously was Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution.
He has consulted for the US Military, Defense Intelligence Agency, and FBI, as well as advised a range of entertainment programs, including for Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Universal, HBO, Discovery, History Channel, and the video game series Call of Duty. Peter has previously Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Children at War, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, and finally Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know and LikeWar.
Accordingly, Emerson is an analyst of national security policy and a Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, he has served as an adviser on information warfare to the National Security Council, Joint Staff, and U.S. intelligence community.
2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine
It is remarkable to read LikeWar at this time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in March 2022. The introduction of how both propaganda and advertising, including the downstream impact of fake news and misinformation) are now more powerful and more abundant via the lack of identity across social media.