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Combatants, civilians, activists or journalists? The role-orientation of citizen OSINT investigators in participative warfare in Ukraine
Hindrichs, Nils Benjamin ; Dimitrov, Michal (advisor) ; Neag, Annamária (referee)
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has given rise to an unprecedented scale of so-called citizen OSINT investigations. Private citizens from all over the world, organizing online, use publicly available information and data such as satellite imagery, social media, or flight tracking, to investigate human-rights violations, war crimes, misinformation campaigns and troop movements. But what is their role in a context of participative war? Through seven semi- structured interviews, this thesis explores and maps the role-orientation of citizen OSINT investigators in the context of the war in Ukraine, finding that they specifically value and try to follow self-imposed rules of verification, impartiality and responsibility towards themselves and others. Bringing together specialized skills, knowledge, and routines, the findings also point towards a community that consists of "unprofessional professionals", bringing about a comparative advantage of the citizen OSINT community over legacy media. Moreover, based on the interviews, a typology of four different but intersecting cognitive role-orientations is suggested, contributing to the exploration of a phenomenon that yet needs to be examined academically. Keywords OSINT, open-source intelligence, citizen journalism, participative war, journalistic...
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Open-source Intelligence in the Czech Media Landscape
Bartoš, Vojtěch ; Hroch, Miloš (advisor) ; Miessler, Jan (referee)
This thesis maps out the use of open-source intelligence in the Czech media landscape. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, a broad theoretical foundation introducing concepts such as Web 2.0, participatory culture, alternative media or the open-source movement is presented. Furthermore, the theoretical part of the thesis includes a classification of basic open-source intelligence techniques and raises an example of an organisation producing open-source intelligence reports. The empirical part of this thesis utilised a mixed approach of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. First, a quantitative analysis of Twitter posts categorised as written in Czech mentioning the keyword 'osint' published from May 2014 to March 2022 was realised. Results indicate a growth in the topic's popularity in Czech internet discourse and suggest a causality between the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and a rising interest in open-source intelligence techniques. The qualitative part of the research makes use of semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with 5 prominent Czech media actors using open-source intelligence in their media production process. The gathered data was subsequently analysed using the grounded theory. The results provide a comprehensive list of Czech-specific sources...
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Tools for searching information about people on the Internet
Vondruška, Petr ; Pavlíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Molnár, Zdeněk (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to summarize information about finding people on the Internet and to introduce specific information resources in this field and information gathering tools for effective searching in these resources. The first part introduces general view on this field, belonging to Open-source intelligence (OSINT). Terms as real identity or virtual (online) identity and technical identity are described. The Intelligence cycle is introduced as an optimal way for searching and processing information. The next part of this study is more practical and describes relevant information resources for gathering information about people. The study provides a description of tools for searching in these resources. This part is based on practical tests of described tools. Most of these tools are used specially for searching in one specific information resource and they do this work better than universal web search engines. The study provides also comparison of selected searching tools which are more complex (search engine Google, meta-search tools Professional Web Orchestra and Copernic Agent, information gathering and forensic analysis tool Paterva Maltego and complex tool for information searching and analysis Tovek Tools). The last part introduces information analysis and processing. This part includes description of tools for graphical data analysis or social network analysis. This study also describes possibility of information relevance review and description of how can final report look like.
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