Media Discourse in an Atmosphere of Information Warfare: From Manipulation to Aggression
Journal: Russian Journal of Linguistics
Year: 2017

In todays atmosphere of information warfare the biased impact of the media has increased, pushing behind other functions, including the informative one. The forms of media influence have also changed: direct persuasion has been replaced by implicit manipulation, which develops into outright aggression. Since, in the media discourse aggression can be both verbal and non-verbal, we propose to use the term information (or media) aggression , which is broader than verbal aggression . Media aggressio