Behavioral modification requires asymmetries of knowledge and power

Evidence

Its operations were designed to produce ignorance through secrecy and the careful evasion of individual awareness. Wylie calls this “information warfare,” correctly acknowledging the asymmetries of knowledge and power that are essential to the means of behavioral modification: I think it’s worse than bullying, because people don’t necessarily know it’s being done to them. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 874

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘information warfare’ in Zuboff’s analytic sense — not cyberattacks but the deliberate production of ignorance in the target of behavioral modification.
• XREF: connects to: Behavioral modification works best when targets stay unaware — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 962; Prisoner behavior control generated a continuous individualizing knowledge — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 202; Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Behavioral modification works best when targets stay unaware #qualifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 962
• Prisoner behavior control generated a continuous individualizing knowledge #exemplifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 202
• Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication #expands (0.80)