TY - JOUR AU - Mahnoor Anwar, AU - Hafiz Muhammad Sheraz, AU - Hina Shahid, PY - 2023/03/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Weaponizing Social Media in Pakistan: Analyzing the Multifaceted Connections of Technological Determinism and Information Warfare JF - ASIAN Journal of International Peace & Security (AJIPS) JA - AJIPS VL - 6 IS - 4 SE - DO - UR - http://ajips.fairlips.org/index.php/ajips/article/view/2022-vol-6-issue-4-weaponizing-social-media-in-pakistan SP - 80 - 98 AB - <p>Due to the recent technological evolution, states and civilizations have become trapped<br>in a state of technological determinism or dependency thereby increasing their<br>exposure or interaction to social media. This study brings together the context of<br>information warfare being conducted through social media and how technological<br>determinism further fuels its results. The study explores if information warfare<br>conducted through social media has exposed elements such as cultural extinction and<br>xeno-centrisim in the Pakistani society. A survey was conducted which involved around<br>200 respondents following the non-probability method and specifying the respondents<br>to be working professional from the age of 25 and above. The results indicated that this<br>issue did persist in Pakistan and the public was slowly being brain washed through<br>information warfare conducted using social media by foreign elements like India and<br>America and thus turning public perception of Pakistan according to will of the foreign<br>elements and stopping them form the path of development.</p> ER -