New Media as Tool of Hybrid War Fare and Impact on Optimistic Thinking of Pakistani Nation
The optimism is the state of being cheerful or hopeful about the future and about the world around. Optimism is defined as watching the bright side of a future to come. It involves ignoring the factors like demoralization, anxious feelings about future that involves over thinking, negative outcomes etc. Human beings foresee the effects in positive and negative ways. People who are positive in their approach regarding thinking, behavior and affects are always optimistic. Optimism is linked with precise cooperating style, ambition framing and constructive affect. Optimists demonstrate interest to positive information and show active engagement and trouble solving type behaviors. Optimists tend towards goal commitment, where the aim is to achieve the end result. Freedom and diversity are the optimistic version of the tendency for media to have a fragmenting effect on society that can also be liberating. The media spread new ideas and encourage mobility, change and modernization.
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New Media as Tool, Hybrid Warfare, Impacts, Optimistic Thinking, Pakistani Nation
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(1) Komal Rehman
M. Phil International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
(2) Imran Ashraf
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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APA : Rehman, K., & Ashraf, I. (2021). New Media as Tool of Hybrid War Fare and Impact on Optimistic Thinking of Pakistani Nation. Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI(III), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-III).05
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CHICAGO : Rehman, Komal, and Imran Ashraf. 2021. "New Media as Tool of Hybrid War Fare and Impact on Optimistic Thinking of Pakistani Nation." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI (III): 37-44 doi: 10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-III).05
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TURABIAN : Rehman, Komal, and Imran Ashraf. "New Media as Tool of Hybrid War Fare and Impact on Optimistic Thinking of Pakistani Nation." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review VI, no. III (2021): 37-44. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-III).05