Charlotte Wagnsson
Professor
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Om Charlotte
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Charlotte Wagnsson is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University. Her research lies at the intersection of political communication, political psychology, and security studies, with a particular focus on malign information influence: strategically crafted information disseminated by authoritarian regimes and other hostile actors with the intent to cause harm. Her work examines the content and dissemination of such influence, as well as societal susceptibilities and possible countermeasures.
Wagnsson leads "Påverkanslabbet" - the Information Influence Lab - a pilot project aimed at strengthening societal resilience by systematising existing research and developing responses to misleading narratives. The project is sponsored by the Hamrin Foundation.
Wagnsson is also head of the Swedish Armed Forces Research Programme's research group focusing on malign information influence, which forms part of "Skydd och verkan i informationsmiljön: Kognitiva förutsättningar för att identifiera och bemöta informationspåverkan".
Wagnsson supervises PhD students and teaches master’s level courses on strategic narratives and malign information influence in the digital media environment.
She earned her PhD from Stockholm University in 2000, with a dissertation on Russian political rhetoric and public opinion. She holds a Master’s degree from Lund University and has taught at Uppsala and Stockholm Universities. She was a guest scholar at the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris.
Senaste publikationer
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Malign Information Influence in Europe and BeyondIngår i De Gruyter Handbook of Cyber Conflict and Warfare
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Democratic resilience to authoritarian disinformation : Initiating a needs-based approachIngår i Contemporary Security Policy
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Identity through Discrimination? Responses by Russian Speakers in Estonia to Kremlin ‘Russophobia’ NarrativesIngår i Europe-Asia Studies
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Naming the enemy : how to fortify society against foreign disinformation while avoiding excessive vigilance to reliable mediaIngår i Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Forskningsprojekt
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SI 2026Charlotte WagnssonSI 2027Charlotte Wagnsson