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Media, persuasion and propaganda / Marshall Soules.
LIBRA P90 .S6 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soules, Marshall, author.
- Series:
- Media topics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Case studies.
- Mass media and propaganda.
- Persuasion (Psychology).
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Media Topics: Series Editor Valerie Alia, Volumes in the Media Topics series critically examine the core subject areas within Media Studies. Each volume offers a critical overview as welt as an original intervention into the subject. Volume topics include: media theory and practice, history, policy, ethics, politics, discourse, culture and audience. An eclectic, interdisciplinary overview of persuasive strategies and propaganda techniques, 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. 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. Using case studies and exercises, this innovative study poses challenging questions: How do individuals and organisations exert influence to build communities and networks? What role do media play in communicating persuasive messages? How do we use recent discoveries in cognitive science to promote a cause, advocate social change or market ideas and products? How do we defend ourselves against manipulation and undue influence, and when does persuasion turn into propaganda? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Rhetoric and Persuasion 19
- 2 Compelling Images 37
- 3 Public Opinion and Manufacturing Consent 55
- 4 Advertising and Consumer Culture 78
- 5 Psychology of Influence 96
- 6 Propaganda and War 119
- 7 Toward a Rhetoric of Film 141
- 8 Propaganda and Global Economics 173
- 9 Making News 198
- 10 Performing Propaganda 222.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version
- ISBN:
- 9780748644162
- 0748644164
- 0748644156
- 9780748644155
- OCLC:
- 898316003
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