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Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as George Orwell or Hannah Arendt were busy describing the visual and verbal languages of Stalinism and Nazism. After the war, many fashionable trends in social sciences and humanities (ranging from Begriffsgeschichte and Ego-Documentology to Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis) were called upon to continue this media-centered trend in the face of increasing political determination of the burgeoing field. Nevertheless, the integration of historical, sociological and linguistic knowledge about totalitarian society on a firm factual ground remains the thing of the future. This book is the first step in this direction. By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, it reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, this functional approach allows to extend the analysis of communicative practices commonly associated with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, to other locations (France, United States of America and Great Britain in the 1930s) or historical contexts (post-Soviet developments in Russia or Kyrgyzstan). This, in turn, leads to the revaluation of the very term »totalitarian«: no longer an ideological label or a stock attribute of historical narration, it gets a life of its own, defining a specific constellation of hierarchies, codes and networks within a given society. »Die einzelnen Beiträge [...] bieten [...] ein facettenreiches Bild von kommunikativen Praktiken und asymmetrischen Öffentlichkeiten in Diktaturen, wobei der Schwerpunkt der Beiträge auf der ehemaligen Sowjetunion liegt. Anregend wird der Band aber durch die Einbeziehung von Beispielen aus den USA, Frankreich, Großbritannien, einem Überblick über Diskurse zu Folterungen (von der Antike bis zu den Anschlägen am 11. September 2001 in den USA) etc. Das heißt, sowohl der Zeitraum wie auch die Länderbeispiele sind weitgespannt. Man kann dies kritisieren [...], doch - und das möchte ich für diesen Band betonen - kann Vielfalt auch sehr anregend sein.« Inge Marszolek, H-Soz-u-Kult, 09.03.2011/Clio-online, 1 (2011) »Die Beiträge sind in ihrer Gesamtheit stimmig zusammengestellt und wurden sorgfältig editiert. Der Band vermittelt eine breitgefächerte Methodenpalette zum Studium des Totalitarismus als eines historischen und kommunikationstechnischen Phänomens, welches ergiebige, gegenwartsnahe Diskussionsfelder eröffnet und zu weiteren konstruktiven interdisziplinären Arbeiten einlädt [...].« Konstantin Kaminskij, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2011) Reviewed in: GMK-News, 1 (2011) Násilí, 23/11 (2010) IDÄNTUTKIMUS, 4 (2010), Jussi Lassila laviedesidées.fr, 3 (2011), Larissa Zakharova Problemy sovremennogo obrazovanija, 5 (2011), Boris Lanin

Communication --- Mass media and propaganda. --- Political aspects.

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First published in 1988, Herman and Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent remains the go-to book for those interested in understanding why the mainstream media act as vehicles for power-elite propaganda. The analytical heart of Manufacturing Consent lies in what it calls 'The Propaganda Model.' According to this model, there are five filters which all newsworthy stories have to pass through before reaching the public sphere. However, a lot has changed in the subsequent thirty-something years. Consequently, a key question that needs to be addressed is whether Manufacturing Consent is still fit for purpose. The conceit underpinning Understanding Media Propaganda in the 21st Century: Manufacturing Consent Revisited and Revised is that the election of Trump in 2016 constitutes the proverbial 'year zero' for fourth estate journalism. As a result of the 'journalistic' cultural revolution that ensued, it argues that the Propaganda Model needs to be overhauled if it is to retain its epistemological bona fides. To this end, this book is a radical--in the true critical sense of the word--intervention into the propaganda/fake news debate. For students (in the broadest sense of the term) of media studies, journalism, communication studies and sociology, it provides both a compelling critique of Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, while at the same time proffering a new explanatory model to understand why MSM output typically replicates the 'stenographer for power' playbook.

Mass media and propaganda --- History --- Herman, Edward S. --- Manufacturing consent.

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"A World of Turmoil offers case studies of five critical moments: the end of World War II and the start of the Long Cold War; the almost-nuclear war over the Quemoy Islands in 1954-1955; the detente, deceptions, and denials surrounding the 1972 Shanghai Communique; the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-1996; and the rise of postcolonial nationalism in contemporary Taiwan"--

Mass media and propaganda --- Cold War. --- Nationalism --- United States. --- Taiwan. --- China. --- Taiwan --- China --- United States --- Foreign relations

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"Thirty years after Chomsky and Herman elaborated the Propaganda Model this title aims to introduce a new generation of readers to it. It presents cutting-edge research demonstrating the model’s general validity as well as new attempts – in the light of digital media and 21st century politics – to critically update, expand, and refine it. International researchers thus analyse the continuities and new developments in media Environments throughout various regions of the world. Part I addresses the theoretical and methodological dimensions of the PM beginning with an interview with Edward Herman on the model itself. Part II reflects on propaganda as a concept and practice within new mediated digital communications systems and interfaces. Applications of the Propaganda Model are featured in Part III notably new forms of media and content not previously analysed within it: the entertainment industries through the analysis of television, professional sports, Hollywood movies and videogames using quantitative and qualitative research methods. The last section presents case studies of corporate media and reporting practices as reflections of elite power. An extensive re-visioning of the PM this book concludes by identifying the fundamental dimensions of the model, the key modifications and expansions that are suggested—such as the inclusion of new filters—whilst assessing the model’s overall value for conducting research in different geographical contexts and media systems and products."

Mass communications --- Mass media --- Propaganda. --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Mass media and propaganda. --- Communication in politics --- Political psychology --- Social influence --- Advertising --- Persuasion (Psychology) --- Psychological warfare --- Public relations --- Publicity --- Social pressure --- Propaganda and mass media --- Propaganda

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Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and information. Advice, promotion and propaganda form a spectrum of persuasion - and everywhere we see it performed in its full theatricality, complete with actors, scripts, props and costumes. Based on enduring rhetorical principles, these persuasive techniques and the psychology behind them have become increasingly sophisticated during the 'age of persuasion', a century of applied research in advertising, advocacy, public relations, mass entertainment and social control. Media, Persuasion, and Propaganda guides the reader through the many varieties of persuasion and its performance, exploring the protocols of rhetoric unique to the medium, from orality and print to film and digital images.

Mass media --- Mass media and propaganda --- Persuasion (Psychology) --- Communication & Mass Media --- Journalism & Communications --- Communication --- Conformity --- Psychology, Applied --- Influence (Psychology) --- Propaganda --- Propaganda and mass media --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Mass Media. --- Propaganda . --- Propaganda. --- Communication in politics --- Political psychology --- Social influence --- Advertising --- Psychological warfare --- Public relations --- Publicity --- Social pressure --- Persuasive Communication --- Psychological Warfare --- Broadcast Media --- Folk Media --- Printed Media --- Media, Broadcast --- Media, Folk --- Media, Printed --- Mass media. --- Mass media and propaganda.