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PRN5110 Perception Management
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTS
Credit Points: 20
Prerequisites:
CSI4104 Information Security
CSI4110 Introduction to Information Warfare
 
Description:
Perception management in public relations or information warfare combines truth projection and psychological operations in order to protect the information environment or to use it for strategic ends. This course involves students in a practical, simulated, perception management exercise to examine the means by which modern organisations – corporate or government – control their information environment, in crisis or in information warfare contexts. The course examines theoretically and practically how information is conveyed or denied to modern audiences in order to influence emotions, motives, and objective reasoning.

This Unit is part of the following Courses / Unit Sets
Q51Graduate Diploma in Information Security and Intelligence
S08Graduate Diploma of Information Operations
I13Master of Information Operations
Q52Master of Information Security and Intelligence
 
 
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Last Updated - Higher Education: 31/03/2008 VET: 31/03/2008