Die Versicherheitlichung der Öffentlichkeit

According to the military, politicians, think tanks and the media, modern societies are part of ongoing 'information warfare'.
Cyberspace allows military operations to address (civil) society, its values, norms and goals through language, communication and global networking. Its goal is to divide societies because a divided society is vulnerable and easy to destroy subversively, and therefore incapable of acting as a state structure.
This threatening scenario is followed by the concept of 'information war', which is analysed in this work in terms of its implications and any actions derived from it.