MEDIA EFFECTS ON CYBER INTRUSIONS
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McCarthy, Mitchell J.
Date
2021-03Advisor
Boger, Dan C.
Porter, Wayne
MacKinnon, Douglas J.
Buettner, Raymond R., Jr.
Warren, Timothy C.
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In this current hyperconnected era, many could argue that multifaced daily news events, arranged into univocal storylines, generate effects well beyond the media environment. Empirically speaking, most explorations of media and cyberspace focus discretely on one or the other, parochially missing their potential interaction. More specifically, could negative media events, laced with dueling narratives, aimed at the United States and its interests by other countries on a given day, impact the level of cyber intrusions on U.S. networks the next day? The purpose of this study is to relate today’s recorded cyber intrusions on a U.S. network to yesterday’s media events using statistical regression models as the method of testing for the relationship’s existence. The analysis begins with a broad investigation of all regimes, and then proceeds through specific regime types, before narrowing down to case studies of specific countries. The evidence provided from these models bears out that negative media narratives projected by other countries toward the U.S. generate measurable impacts on the level of ensuing intrusions on U.S. networks. Furthermore, these effects vary in important ways across countries and regime types contingent upon their unique culture, political context, and evolutionary setting.
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