From intrigue and conspiracy to hybrid threats. New competences and media education in cyberculture 3.0

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to show the relationship between intrigue and conspiracy and the dominant medium and the competences of its users. This issue is presented in two perspectives: diachronic and functional with the category of key competences taken into account. These perspectives co-create the so-called social history and media theories. They make it possible to understand the role of universal and transhistoric motivations of schemers and conspirators in the development of communication media up to modern times marked by hybrid threats. The possibility of using these unconventional means in military operations and social surveillance is the result of the dynamic development of new networked, interactive and mobile technologies. This development, in turn, requires from the citizens of planetary society an acquiring of new, increasingly complex competences.