| Creators: |
Jechle, Deinera and Frenzel-Piasentin, Adeline and Risius, Marten and Gewald, Heiko |
| Title: |
Conceptualizing Information Warfare in the Digital Age: Implications for the IS Discipline |
| Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item |
| Event Title: |
(Proceedings of the) 36th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) “The State of the Information Systems Discipline: Challenges and Opportunities” |
| Event Location: |
Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
| Event Dates: |
December, 1 - 5, 2025 |
| Projects: |
IDI |
| Page Range: |
pp. 1-14 |
| Paper No. / Type of Paper: |
121 |
| Date: |
2025 |
| Divisions: |
Informationsmanagement |
| Abstract (ENG): |
This paper presents a conceptualization of information warfare (IW) for information systems (IS) research, positioning it as a sociotechnical construct that integrates cognitive and psychological, cyber and technical, economic and infrastructure, and other deception operations. Drawing on a hermeneutic literature review, we clarify the relation to adjacent warfare types and identify four categories of operations central to its practice. While many of these operations have already been studied in IS, they are rarely framed explicitly as IW. This limits our theoretical integration and practical relevance. We propose that recognizing IW as a systemic use of its inherent operations opens new avenues for IS research to address strategic manipulation, societal resilience, and cross-sector governance. |
| Forthcoming: |
No |
| Language: |
English |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
information warfare, operations, cyberwarfare, hermeneutic literature review |
| Citation: |
Jechle, Deinera and Frenzel-Piasentin, Adeline and Risius, Marten and Gewald, Heiko
(2025)
Conceptualizing Information Warfare in the Digital Age: Implications for the IS Discipline.
In: (Proceedings of the) 36th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) “The State of the Information Systems Discipline: Challenges and Opportunities”, December, 1 - 5, 2025, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, pp. 1-14, Paper 121.
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