Paul Lieber

• PhD, Mass Communication & Public Affairs
• Principal Investigator at COLSA Corporation

Editor’s Note: Dr. Paul Lieber, Information Professionals Association (IPA) Advisor and Chief Scientist at COLSA Corporation, shares his perspectives here on how data and social science can best be joined to tackle modern information problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Lieber has advocated for aggressively finding and using new approache...

Dr. Paul Lieber, author of “Rethinking Communication Influence from a Strategic Communication Approach” Description: Dr. Paul Lieber discusses strategic influence and why the U.S. is falling behind our peer competitors and adversaries in the influence and strategic communication arena. The views expressed in this video are entirely those of the s...

The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Quick Look series is a research initiative intended to provide an overview of key topics and issues of interest to members of the USSOCOM enterprise. In this Quick Look on strategic communication by JSOU Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Paul Lieber, the author explains what strategic communication is, why it...

For over a decade, many within US defense and interagency circles maintain a belief they are ‘losing’ the communication influence battle, one its adversaries are excelling at due to seemingly better strategy and reach. Peer competitor infiltration into American elections, radical groups facilitating foreign fighter flow over chat applications, and/...

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Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) have increasingly been able to use the global economic environment to their advantage. TCOs have grown more complex over time, and so has our ability to defeat them, however, this complexity has challenged our ability to access and use collective information available.

Widespread migration across the European continent combined with robust online radicalization networks create a present a future violent extremism problem that current NATO and EU policies and authorities are not designed to handle (Pogacsas, 2017; Miller, 2016). Similarly, internal frictions stemming from these dynamics produced a radical fringe w...

This monograph is the third of three volumes that follow from an August 2016 JSOU symposium, Theory of Special Operations. This compendium of articles is not a comprehensive or exhaustive treatment of special operations theory. Rather, it is intended to continue the conversation and, at least, bring to a culminating point the argument over whether...

The success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in recruiting and sustaining foreign fighter flow(Baron, 2016) is seen by many as a product of the organization’s potent social media efforts (Al-Tamimi,2014; Brooking & Singer, 2016). This research argues, however, that a different approach to bothproblem analysis (Metz, 2015) and measures...

To date, explorations into product and service reputation and its communication often existed on theoretical islands, with economical, sociological, and/or relational explanations viewed in near isolation. This chapter attempts to synthesize these separate theoretical paradigms, and with it identify key overlapping communication variables to explai...

Elementary and secondary school leaders advocating remediation and prevention of student discipline problems are doing so in lieu of direct development of student self-discipline (Larson, Smith, & Furlong, 2002). This shift has lead to the use of zero-tolerance strategies towards discipline (Maxcy, 2002). In this article, zero-tolerance policies —...

This research analyzed 2006 Princeton survey data to investigate the relationship between Internet users' privacy concerns and types of personally identifiable information (PII) disclosed online. Drawing on Altman's primary territory theory (19751. Altman , I. 1975 . The environment and social behavior . Monterey , CA : Brooks/Cole . View all refe...

This study links uses and gratifications theory to a theory that addresses civic engagement and then applies it to create an electronic public sphere designed to encourage citizens to participate in civic life. An experimental website on the topic of the state budget was created and tested to assure maximum usability by citizens. It found that the...

This study conducted the first empirical testing of Baker and Martinson's (2001) TARES test of ethical consideration factors for public relations practitioners. The TARES test is composed of 5 interconnected parts: truthfulness of the message, authenticity of the persuader, respect for the persuadee, equity of the appeal, and social responsibility...