The Propaganda Of Power

Author : Mary Whitby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004351479

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The Propaganda of Power by Mary Whitby Pdf

The 13 essays presented here shed new light on the role of panegyric in the western and eastern Roman Empire in the late antique world. Introductory chapters give an overview of panegyrical theory and practice, followed by studies of major writers of the early empire and the anonymous Panegyrici latini. The core of the volume deals with prose and verse panegyric under the Christian Roman Empire (4th-7th century): key themes addressed are social and political context, the 'hidden agenda', and the impact of Christianity on the pagan tradition of the panegyric, including the portrayal of patriarchs and holy men.

Author : David Welch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857724816

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Propaganda, Power and Persuasion by David Welch Pdf

As Philip Taylor has written, 'The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the information and images that shape our thoughts. If this happens, the war propagandists will be back in business again.' Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which can be interpreted in a number of different ways. What are the characteristic features of propaganda, and how can it be defined? The distinguished contributors to this book trace the development of techniques of 'opinion management' from the First World War to the current conflict in Afghanistan. They reveal how state leaders and spin-doctors operating at the behest of the state, sought to shape popular attitudes - at home and overseas - endeavouring to harness new media with the objective of winning hearts and minds. The book provides compelling evidence of how the study and practice of propaganda today is shaped by its history.

Author : Jared A. Ball
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030423551

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The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For generations Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," and this book argues that commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity. This book exposes the claim as both a marketing strategy and myth, while also showing how that myth functions simultaneously as a case study for propaganda and commercial media coverage of economics. In sum, while “buying power” is indeed an economic and marketing phrase applied to any number of racial, ethnic, religious, gender, age or group of consumers, it has a specific application to Black America.

Author : Jan L. de Jong
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271062372

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The Power and the Glorification by Jan L. de Jong Pdf

Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in Rome, extensive decorative cycles were commissioned to represent the strength of the church and historical justifications for its supreme authority. Replicating the contemporary viewer’s experience is central to De Jong’s approach, and he encourages readers to consider the works through fifteenth- and sixteenth-century eyes. De Jong argues that most visitors would only have had a limited knowledge of the historical events represented in these works, and they would likely have accepted (or been intended to accept) what they saw at face value. With that end in mind, the painters’ advisors did their best to “manipulate” the viewer accordingly, and De Jong discusses their strategies and methods.

Author : Katie Stevenson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748694198

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Power and Propaganda by Katie Stevenson Pdf

A fresh introductory study of late medieval Scotland. Includes: expert assessment of the period arranged in thematic chapters; fresh insights into the period that draw on a wide range of sources; extensive further reading lists.

Author : Susan Bachrach,Steven Luckert
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896047143

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State of Deception by Susan Bachrach,Steven Luckert Pdf

A history of Nazi propaganda based on never-before-published posters, rare photographs, and historical artifacts from the USHMM’s groundbreaking exhibition. “Propaganda,” Adolf Hitler wrote in 1924, “is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert.” State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda documents how, in the 1920s and 1930s, the Nazi Party used posters, newspapers, rallies, and the new technologies of radio and film to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany—reinforced by fear-mongering images of state “enemies.” These images promoted indifference toward the suffering of neighbors, disguised the regime’s genocidal actions, and insidiously incited ordinary people to carry out or tolerate mass violence.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is addressing this topic today because, in an age of instant electronic communication, disseminators of messages and images of intolerance and hate have new tools, while at the same time consumers seem less able to cope with the vast amounts of unmediated information bombarding them daily. It is hoped that a deeper understanding of the complexities of the past may help us respond more effectively to today’s propaganda campaigns and biased messages.

Author : David Welch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317620839

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Nazi Propaganda (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust) by David Welch Pdf

Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations. The work tackles aspects of Nazi propaganda which had been neglected in the past, but together they demonstrate the disproportionate role assigned to propaganda in one of the most highly politicised societies in contemporary European history.

Author : David Welch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Propaganda, German
ISBN : 1138796646

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Nazi Propaganda by David Welch Pdf

Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations. The work tackles aspects of Nazi propaganda which had been neglected in the past, but together they demonstrate the disproportionate role assigned to propaganda in one of the most highly politicised societies in contemporary European history.

Author : Joan Pedro-Carañana,Daniel Broudy,Jeffery Klaehn
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912656172

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The Propaganda Model Today by Joan Pedro-Carañana,Daniel Broudy,Jeffery Klaehn Pdf

While the individual elements of the propaganda system (or filters) identified by the Propaganda Model (PM) – ownership, advertising, sources, flak and anti-communism – have previously been the focus of much scholarly attention, their systematisation in a model, empirical corroboration and historicisation have made the PM a useful tool for media analysis across cultural and geographical boundaries. Despite the wealth of scholarly research Herman and Chomsky’s work has set into motion over the past decades, the PM has been subjected to marginalisation, poorly informed critiques and misrepresentations. Interestingly, while the PM enables researchers to form discerning predictions as regards corporate media performance, Herman and Chomsky had further predicted that the PM itself would meet with such marginalisation and contempt. In current theoretical and empirical studies of mass media performance, uses of the PM continue, nonetheless, to yield important insights into the workings of political and economic power in society, due in large measure to the model’s considerable explanatory power.

Author : David Welch,British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Propaganda
ISBN : 0712357009

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Propaganda by David Welch,British Library Pdf

This title provides compelling evidence of how the study and practice of propaganda today is shaped by its history

Author : Nicholas Reeves
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826473905

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Power of Film Propaganda by Nicholas Reeves Pdf

Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the films made the impact on those audiences that the propagandists had expected.

Author : Kingsley Edney
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137382147

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The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda by Kingsley Edney Pdf

As China becomes more deeply engaged with the outside world its propaganda authorities confront a dilemma: how can they maintain domestic ideological cohesion in the face of an influx of foreign information and ideas while also convincing skeptical international audiences that China's rise is a good news story? This book examines the Chinese propaganda system in the era of globalization, exploring connections between the Chinese Communist Party's desire for domestic political control and its vision for the development of China's international power. Investigating areas such as Chinese attitudes to soft power, the recent international expansion of the Chinese media, and the authorities' reaction to public opinion crises at home and abroad, Edney shows that in order to understand Chinese attempts to influence international views it is necessary to examine the power of propaganda in China's domestic political system.

Author : Peter Pomerantsev
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541762138

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This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev Pdf

Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times). When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.

Author : Jason Stanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400865802

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How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley Pdf

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attention Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy—particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality—and how it has damaged democracies of the past. Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality. Drawing from a range of sources, including feminist theory, critical race theory, epistemology, formal semantics, educational theory, and social and cognitive psychology, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States. How Propaganda Works shows that an understanding of propaganda and its mechanisms is essential for the preservation and protection of liberal democracies everywhere.

Author : Kodjo Crobsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Ghana
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111187824

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--Power to the People by Kodjo Crobsen Pdf