Recognising and Managing Disinformation
Recognising and Managing Disinformation
From military conflicts and public health emergencies to democratic elections, climate change, and the threats posed by disinformation, misinformation, and malign influence (DDMI), we face many pressing global challenges. This Melbourne MicroCert is ideal for intelligence analysts, cybersecurity specialists and other professionals seeking a deeper understanding of how disinformation impacts…
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From military conflicts and public health emergencies to democratic elections, climate change, and the threats posed by disinformation, misinformation, and malign influence (DDMI), we face many pressing global challenges. This Melbourne MicroCert is ideal for intelligence analysts, cybersecurity specialists and other professionals seeking a deeper understanding of how disinformation impacts organisations, as well as the best practice skills needed to recognise, assess, and build resilience to mis and disinformation. Analyse contemporary global disinformation case studies: Drawing on key case examples such as the Russian Internet Research Agency, COVID-19, climate change, the invasion of Ukraine and disinformation campaigns in the Indo-Pacific, you’ll understand disinformation and malign influence as a historical and global phenomenon and examine how they’re used by state and non-state actors alike. Discover and apply best practices to assess, counter, and build resilience to disinformation: Explore the online tools, open-source resources and techniques that can help investigate, assess, and counter disinformation. You’ll gain practical skills needed to build resilience to disinformation and malign influence and explore the emerging international best practices for countering disinformation. Develop a strategy for your organisation to counter disinformation: Putting your new knowledge into practice, you’ll identify and assess an area of disinformation that impacts your own organisation or professional context and make recommendations to counter and build resilience to this disinformation.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of current best practices in recognising, assessing and countering disinformation online. You’ll be able to: Assess disinformation and its impact using best open-source intelligence analysis practices; Use awareness of strategies and techniques used to persuade audiences to counter disinformation in the new information technology ecosystem.
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Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
