SCHEDULE (subject to change)

Week 1 Strategy of image in information warfare.

Keywords: Course of Action, Hybrid Warfare, Information warfare, Strategic Communication, Strategic alignment, Theory of Reception.

Week 2 The role of image in strategic interests and its application in Strategic communication.

Keywords: Accountability, Consistency, Image, Imagery, Information warfare, Spirit, StratCom, Strategic victory.

Week 3 Deployment of image on the information battlefield.

Keywords: Cybernetic domain, Information domain, Information warfare, Permissive Environment, Social engineering, Social media, Subversion and Destabilization, Trolling.

Week 4 Techniques of Imagery in information domain

Keywords: Foreign influence effort, Information warfare, Physical dimension, Information dimension, Cognitive dimension, Fake news, Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation.

Week 5. Influence of Image in Cognitive dimension

Keywords: Cognitive dimension, Cognitive capabilities, Social engineering, Social Bubble, Reflexive Control, Backfire effect.

Week 6. Deepfake Phenomenon

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Deepfake, Generative adversarial network, Image compression, Image denoising, Impersonation, Information warfare, Super-resolution.

Week 7. Image as evidence

Keywords: Crimes against humanity, Evidence, Geo-location, Image, Imagery, Metadata, Satellite imagery, War crimes.

Week 8. Role of image in Cross-Domain Synergy

Keywords: Cross-Domain Synergy, Information warfare, Image, ISTAR, Targeting, Orthophotography, Aerial imagery.

Week 9. Image in the strategic design of love and hate.

Keywords: Arts, Cult of personality, Human values, Iconology, Image, Propaganda, Spectacle.

Week 10. Visual opportunities of Participatory Culture.

Keywords: Participatory Culture, Networking, Community involvement, Chatbot.

Week 11. How can an image help the truth defeat a lie? Part I.

- Students final presentation, discussion of the presented ideas.

Week 12. How can an image help the truth defeat a lie? Part II.

- Students final presentation, discussion of the presented ideas.