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News | Nov. 18, 2020

COVID-19: The Information Warfare Paradigm Shift

By Jan Kallberg, Ph.D. Rosemary A. Burk, Ph.D. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ph.D.

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions highlights the critical term “paradigm shift,” which occurs when it suddenly becomes evident that earlier assumptions are no longer correct. The plurality of the scientific community studying this domain accepts the change. These paradigm-shifting events can be scientific  findings or, as in the social sciences, a system shock that creates a punctured equilibrium, triggering a leap forward acquiring new knowledge.

 

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