Digital Environment and Small States in Europe

Viktorija Car, PhD, is Full Professor and Head of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Split. The focus of her scientific research includes digital media and society, digital activism, visual culture and visual media, media narratives, media and gender, and minority studies.Marta Zorko, PhD, is Full Professor at Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, and Head of the undergraduate program Military Leadership and Management. Her scientific interest is oriented towards political geography, geopolitics, and border studies with a strong emphasis on concepts of territoriality and space/place creation.

• INTRODUCTION (Viktorija Car & Marta Zorko) PART ONE: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS Digital information and communication environment – potentials for country promotion, digital propaganda or digital threats (Viktorija Car, Hrvoje Jakopović & Christopher Nehring) Cybersecurity: Basic Concepts, Contemporary Security Challenges and Digital Technology (Ružica Jakešević & Robert Mikac) Small states and digitalisation: building a theoretical framework for digital diplomacy (Đana Luša & Boško Picula) PART TWO: SMALL STATES AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGES European Security Space(s): Defining and Protecting Cyberspace in European Small States (Marta Zorko & Ivana Cesarec) The smaller the state the bigger the challenge: Estonia as the digital state (Jaanika Puusalu) Surveillance, De-Democratization and the Digital States of Exception: Cyprus, a Small State Surveillance-Post (Michaelangelo Anastasiou, Nicos Trimikliniotis & Petros Petrikkos) Icelandic Environmental Security Communication Strategies (Lidija Kos-Stanišić, Hrvoje Jakopović & Dino Đula) Hyperlocal media and the private-public sphere: Malta’s complicated ecosystem (Alex Grech & Martin G. Debattista) Hybrid threats as challenges for the protection of critical information infrastructure: Comparative comparison of Croatia and Estonia (Robert Mikac, Ivana Cesarec & Vladimir Sazonov)