Politics and propaganda : weapons of mass seduction / Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Shaughnessy, Nicholas J., 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Propaganda.

Mass media and propaganda.

Press and politics.

Politics, Practical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 264 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Nicholas O'Shaughnessy is Professor of Marketing and Communication at the University of Keele in Staffordshire, England

Summary:

Beginning by defining what exactly propaganda is, this text explores the concept and how it came into existence. It also looks at recent examples of spin, such as the war in Afghanistan, single-issue protest groups, negative advertising and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Contents:

pt. I. Defining what and reasoning why

1. A question of meaning

2. Explaining propaganda

pt. II. A conceptual arrangement

3. An essential trinity : rhetoric, myth, symbolism

4. Integuments of propaganda

pt. III. Case studies in propaganda

5. Privatising propaganda

6. Party propaganda

7. Propaganda and the Symbolic State : a British experience

pt. IV. Marketing war

8. Nine-eleven and war

9. Weapons of mass deception : propaganda, the media and the Iraq war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8598-9

OCLC:

1450607308