The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda unpacks the ever-present and exciting topic of propaganda to explain how it invades the human psyche, in what ways it does so, and in what contexts. As a beguiling tool of political persuasion in times of war, peace, and uncertainty, propaganda incites people to take, often violent, action, consciously or unconsciously. This pervasive influence is particularly prevalent in world politics and international relations today. In this interdisciplinary Handbook, the editors have gathered together a group of world-class scholars from Europe, America, Asia, and the Middle East, to discuss leadership propaganda, war propaganda, propaganda for peace marketing, propaganda as a psychological tool, terror-enhanced propaganda, and the contemporary topics of internet-mediated propaganda. Unlike previous publications on the subject, this book brings to the forefront current manifestations and processes of propaganda such as Islamist, and Far Right propaganda, from interdisciplinary perspectives. In its four parts, the Handbook offers researchers and academics of propaganda studies, peace and conflict studies, media and communication studies, political science and governance marketing, as well as intelligence and law enforcement communities, a comprehensive overview of the tools and context of the development and evolution of propaganda from the twentieth century to the present: Part One: Concepts, Precepts and Techniques in Propaganda Research Part Two: Methodological Approaches in Propaganda Research Part Three: Tools and Techniques in Counter-Propaganda Research Part Four: Propaganda in Context

This open access volume presents the latest research in propaganda studies, featuring contributions from a range of leading scholars and covering the most cutting-edge scholarship in the study of propaganda from World War I to the present. Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda's inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence. We remain anxious about pernicious information warfare campaigns, especially those that seemingly endanger liberal democracy or freedom of thought. What are the challenges, then, of studying propaganda studies in the twenty-first century? Much scholarship remains locked into the study of state-led campaigns, however an area of special concern in recent years has been the loss of official control over the basic instruments of mass communication. This has been seen in the rise of 'fake news' and the ability of non-state actors to influence political events. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded support for the Iraq War in 2003. In The Discourse of Propaganda, John Oddo examines these and other such cases to show how successful wartime propaganda functions as a discursive process. Oddo argues that propaganda is more than just misleading rhetoric generated by one person or group; it is an elaborate process that relies on recontextualization, ideally on a massive scale, to keep it alive and effective. In a series of case studies, he analyzes both textual and visual rhetoric as well as the social and material conditions that allow them to circulate, tracing how instances of propaganda are constructed, performed, and repeated in diverse contexts, such as speeches, news reports, and popular, everyday discourse. By revealing the agents, (inter)texts, and cultural practices involved in propaganda campaigns, The Discourse of Propaganda shines much-needed light on the topic and challenges its readers to consider the complicated processes that allow propaganda to flourish. This book will appeal not only to scholars of rhetoric and propaganda but also to those interested in unfolding the machinations motivating America's recent military interventions.

In 1968, the Kerner Commission concluded that America was heading toward "two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal." Today, America's communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacy violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation's example around the world. In Healing Our Divided Society, Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, along with Eisenhower Foundation CEO Alan Curtis, re-examine fifty years later the work still necessary towards the goals set forth in The Kerner Report. This timely volume unites the interests of minorities and white working- and middle-class Americans to propose a strategy to reduce poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. Reflecting on America's urban climate today, this new report sets forth evidence-based policies concerning employment, education, housing, neighborhood development, and criminal justice based on what has been proven to work-and not work. Contributors include: Oscar Perry Abello, Elijah Anderson, Anil N.F. Aranha, Jared Bernstein, Henry G. Cisneros, Elliott Currie, Linda Darling-Hammond, Martha F. Davis, E. J. Dionne, Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, Delbert S. Elliott, Carol Emig, Jeff Faux, Ron Grzywinski, Michael P. Jeffries, Lamar K. Johnson, Celinda Lake, Marilyn Melkonian, Gary Orfield, Diane Ravitch, Laurie Robinson, Herbert C. Smitherman, Jr., Joseph Stiglitz, Dorothy Stoneman, Kevin Washburn, Valerie Wilson, Gary Younge, Julian E. Zelizer, and the editors

From chants and pamphlets to the Internet, terrorist propaganda can be deadly effective Propaganda used by terrorists and armed groups might not always be the most sophisticated or nuanced form of rhetoric, but with the right mix of emotion and logic it can be extremely effective in motivating supporters and frightening opponents. This book examines how terrorist groups in recent history have used propaganda, and how they had adapted to new communications technologies while retaining useful techniques from the past. Harmon traces how armed groups and terrorists around the globe have honed their messages for maximum impact, both on the communities they hope to persuade to support them and on the official state organs they hope to overthrow. Sometimes both the messages and the techniques are crude; others are highly refined, carefully crafted appeals to intellect or emotion, embracing the latest forms of communications technology. Whatever the ideas or methodology, all are intended to use the power of ideas, along with force, to project an image and to communicate-not merely intimidate. The Terrorist Argument uses nine case studies of how armed groups have used communications techniques with varying degrees of success: radio, newspapers, song, television, books, e-magazines, advertising, the Internet, and social media. It is fascinating reading for anyone interested in civil conflict, terrorism, communications theory and practice, or world affairs in general.

En 1854, el britanico William Howard Russell fue enviado a cubrir las incidencias de la Guerra de Crimea. Lejos de enviar reportes a la medida del Estado Mayor, trazo con veracidad y crudeza los rigores de la contienda. El suyo fue el primer eslabon de un oficio que ha tenido nombres gloriosos. Montero pasa aqui revista a nombres que sacudieron la conciencia publica mundial y aun siguen impactando, sin evadir la polemica sobre etica profesional y los limites de la objetividad informativa, analizando el rol de los medios actuales como voceros de una politica de Estado.

Politics and Film examines popular movies and television shows as indicators of social and political trends to explore the political culture of the United States. Updated to include the popular and controversial movies and shows American Sniper, House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black, and Twelve Years a Slave, the second edition investigates popular conceptions of government, the military, intelligence and terrorism, punishment and policing, and recognizes mistakes or dark times in our shared history.

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Hay muchas maneras de eliminar a una persona, una de ellas es robandole el prestigio. Por primera vez academicos y periodistas con diferentes trayectorias politicas analizan las practicas de asesinatos de reputaciones de personas y grupos sociales que ha ejercido el gobierno cubano por medio siglo.

Esta segunda edicion ampliada con el prologo del conocido academico venezolano Ramon Guillermo Aveledo y un articulo del periodista y escritor italiano Gordiano Lupi, traductor del blog "Generacion Y" de Yoani Sanchez
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"Si nos dejamos guiar por la propaganda gubernamental, en esta Isla no hay una sola persona decente, preocupada por el destino nacional y sin crimenes cometidos que ademas se oponga al sistema. Todo aquel que emite una critica es inmediatamente tachado como terrorista o vendepatria, malhechor o amoral."
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En este libro, el asesinato de reputaciones no es equivalente al que pueda desarrollar un partido politico de oposicion contra el gobierno o un grupo de consumidores insatisfechos contra un restaurante. No estamos hablando de difamaciones personales o criticas institucionales. Nos referimos a una forma organizada de terrorismo estatal orientado hacia la deliberada y completa destruccion de la credibilidad de una persona, grupo o institucion.

El otro paredon examina este tema a la luz de la experiencia cubana mediante varios ejemplos: el politico Carlos Marquez Sterling, el empresario Amadeo Barletta, el periodista Carlos Alberto Montaner y centros de estudios academicos creados por el propio regimen.

Rafael Rojas, destacado intelectual y el historiador de las ideas cubanas mas descollante de su generacion, centra su analisis en la manera en que el regimen cubano ha desplegado desde temprano un esfuerzo deliberado por construir una historiografia oficial que contribuya a legitimarlo.

Uva de Aragon, reconocida escritora del exilio historico cubano, para quien la ausencia de odios y la predica por la reconciliacion ha sido una constante, analiza el modo en que la clase politica pre revolucionaria fue demonizada, incluso antes de 1959, y el modo arbitrario en que sus reputaciones, incluida la de su padre, el Dr. Carlos Marquez Sterling, quien presidiera honorablemente y con gran equidad la Asamblea Constituyente en 1940.

Juan Antonio Blanco utiliza como eje central de su trabajo al empresario Amadeo Barletta y muestra el modo en que el gobierno cubano tambien se ha valido del asesinato de reputaciones, primero para confiscar arbitrariamente los bienes de este empresario, y luego para distraer la atencion de la opinion publica nacional e internacional cuando las estructuras militares cubanas se vieron envueltas en un escandalo por operaciones de narcotrafico en 1989.

Otros dos autores, Ana Julia Faya y Carlos Alberto Montaner, exponen el modo en que aun partiendo de perspectivas opuestas (marxista y liberal), ambos han sido acosados por esta modalidad de terrorismo de estado que es el asesinato de reputaciones.

Gordiano Lupi, escritor italiano y periodista especializado en Cuba expone las campanas de asesinato de la reputacion de la blogera cubana Yoani Sanchez en Italia.

Los historiadores no solo deben hacer uso de una metodologia rigurosa e imparcial para determinar el modo en que realmente actuo cada persona. Tambien se les reclama la contextualizacion de los hechos para poder alcanzar una mejor comprension de por que cada cual se alineo del modo en que lo hizo durante este prolongado conflicto. La reconciliacion entre cubanos reclama ese entendimiento contextualizado de percepciones y actuaciones pasadas.

"Hay muchas maneras de eliminar a una persona, una de ellas es robandole el prestigio. Por primera vez academicos y periodistas con diferentes trayectorias politicas analizan las practicas de asesinatos de reputaciones de personas y grupos sociales que ha ejercido el gobierno cubano por medio...

El asesinato estatal de reputacion es un proceso deliberado y constante, destinado a destruir la credibilidad y la reputacion de una persona, institucion, grupo social o nacion mediante una combinacion de metodos tanto abiertos como encubiertos.

Esta estrategia tiene la finalidad de anular la capacidad de influencia de la victima, silenciar su voz y lograr que la sociedad la rechace. Al transformar a las victimas en no-personas, las hacen vulnerables a abusos aun mas graves como la agresion fisica, el encarcelamiento, la expropiacion de bienes, el destierro y el asesinato, llegando incluso a masacres o al genocidio de todo el grupo social al que pertenecen.

Hay un largo hilo umbilical que vincula la historia del empresario Amadeo Barletta con la de Yoani Sanchez y los actuales periodistas independientes cubanos: la politica totalitaria dirigida a cerrar todo espacio a la autonomia personal y la libertad de prensa. Es por eso que esta historia tiene vigencia, en el sentido que Ortega y Gasset otorgaba a ese concepto. Revelar los metodos empleados por el gobierno cubano para asesinar la reputacion de Barletta es una contribucion para la necesaria toma de conciencia regional sobre las tecnicas que ahora exporta a los gobiernos que le son afines.

Pamphlets have usually been regarded as ephemeral literature with little permanent impact. This work demonstrates the historical value of this genre of political literature. The propaganda pamphlets help historians place a finger on the pulse of an extraordinarily important historical period when new ideas concerning the nation-state, the rights of the governed and forms of political protest complicated the political scene and opened up new fronts of conflict between the colonial state and the colonized subjects. This study devises innovative approaches to reading these pamphlets and generates new insights into the world of the pamphleteers thus providing the readers with a more nuanced understanding of the politics and political culture of early twentieth-century Bengal. In the process, the book makes an important contribution to the historical controversies that the politics of this period has generated among scholars of Indian nationalism.

How to Look Good in A War examines the methods used to depict, defend, and justify the use of state violence. Many books have shown how "truth is the first casualty of war" but this is the first to analyze exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalized. Brian Rappert details the "upside-down" world of war in which revelation conceals, knowledge fosters uncertainty, and transparency obscures. He looks at government spin during recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya where officials maneuver between circulating and withholding information. Examining how organized violence is justified, How to Look Good in A War draws on experiences from recent controversy to consider how ignorance about the operation of war is produced and how concerned individuals and groups can intervene to make a difference.

This text presents a picture of popular consensus between the government and the film industry over the representation on the cinema screen of Britain and the British at war. It examines the role of the cinema as a vehicle of propaganda, set within its institutional, political, and cultural contexts, revealing the complex relationship between the Ministry of Information and the different sectors of the film industry. It identifies the themes and ideologies presented to audiences through analysis of key wartime films, including "Forty-Ninth Parallel, ""In Which We Serve, " and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

Much communication today argues a point. An argument, by definition, involves an attack and a counterattack not only using logic, but also incorporating non-logical feelings, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Much of the non-logical element in our argument taps the reservoir of unconscious understandings, feelings, expectations, and values that we have coded and stored in our unconscious minds in the form of stereotypes, schemas, and typifications. Our internal packets of stored values and beliefs may constitute our own worst enemy as they militate against creative thought and forward-looking change. At the same time, they may provide solace for our inner being and provide a framework for developing persuasive campaigns to further our interests. The book takes us through the persuasive process, particularly as it is used in terrorist persuasive settings and as it has been used in some of the major propaganda battles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Hitler and Goebbels all regarded cinema as their most important weapon for mass political propaganda. This revised and expanded edition of "Film Propaganda" examines the ways in which cinema was used for political purposes by two of the most highly politicised societies in twentieth-century European history. "Film Propaganda" is still to date the only book in English to compare these two cinemas and examine both in depth. Richard Taylor demonstrates how cinema was brought under political control in each country and goes on to explore the themes and stereotypes projected by the feature films that were produced. In so doing, he highlights the means used by the authorities to condition and control the filmgoer as individual spectator and as member of a mass audience. This process is examined in greater depth in a series of detailed analyses of films selected for their particular political significance, including "October", "Alexander Nevsky", "Triumph of the Will", "The Wandering Jew" and, new to this edition, the 1949 Stalin cult film, "The Fall of Berlin". Also new to this edition are appendices with details of films viewed by Hitler and Goebbels, which were captured by the Red Army from Berlin 's ruins in 1945 and were considered by Stalin for release during the film famine years after the war.

Creating Rosie the Riveter examines advertisements and fiction published in the Saturday Evening Post and True Story in order to show how propaganda was used to encourage women to enter the work force.

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays is a unique, interdisciplinary collection that brings together contemporary and classic readings to provide significant insights into the practice and theory of propaganda and persuasion. The contents range from seminal essays to articles by well-known writers on propaganda to new essays about responses to contemporary issues and events. This engaging anthology also includes analyses of the relationship between rhetoric, propaganda, and persuasion. Key Features: Offers informative historical articles: A series of articles lends perspectives on propaganda at the time of the American Revolution, World Wars I and II, Communist Soviet Union, the Vietnam War, and brainwashing in the Korean War. Provides new and original essays: New material is included on contemporary issues and events such as a response to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the treatment of the women of Afghanistan, public diplomacy as propaganda, the influence of the built environment, and brainwashing. Includes reprints of classic essays by major theorists: Kenneth Burke's brilliant analysis of the rhetoric of Mein Kampf and Jacques Ellul's foundational essay on the meaning of propaganda provide theoretical groundwork for the study of propaganda. In addition, a wide range of essays by well-known theorists examine propaganda in movies, global television, third wave propaganda, public relations as propaganda, the rhetoric of the Third Reich, and contemporary propaganda. Intended Audience: Perfect supplementary text to the Fourth Edition of Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell's text Propaganda and Persuasion; as well as an excellent stand alone text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Persuasion and Propaganda, Rhetoric, and Mass Communications

Wayne Hanley's "The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796 to 1799" makes clever use of images as well as text to show the artful self-crafting on the part of a young provincial on the make. Using a term actually invented at or near the Revolution, the book makes propaganda into a key element in the rise of Napoleon. With a solid interfacing of cultural and political history, Hanley's novel approach meshes with recent works on the Revolution by Lynn Hunt, Carla Hesse, and others.

How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. International contributors in mass communication, political science, and sociology address how U.S. institutional media practices, government policy, and culture can influence public mobilization for war.

This timely book presents a multifaceted look at war, media, and propaganda from international perspectives. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provide an insightful overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. They examine the processes behind media coverage of war, sophisticated propaganda techniques, the dynamics of public opinion, and the effects on human affairs and communication. As the book moves through theoretical discussions to regional and national views, it explores cultural-political implications for the United States and other countries around the world, concluding with recommendations and solutions to key problems of media globalization.