Propaganda, Power and Persuasion (eBook, PDF)

From World War I to Wikileaks
Redaktion: Welch, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857724816
• Artikelnr.: 59263854

Autorenporträt

David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda, War & Society at the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements Introduction:
'Opening Pandora's Box'. Propaganda and Persuasion in the Information Age
David Welch The Great War 1. Propaganda, Memory and Identity: the battle of
the Falkland Islands, December1914 Mark Connelly 2. Images of the Hun. The
Portrayal of the German Enemy in British Propaganda in World War One David
Welch Interwar Period and the Second World War 3. The British at War.
George Arliss the Superstar as Propagandist Jeffrey Richards 4.
Institutional and ideological rivalry between the MOI Films Division and
British Council over the presentation of Britain during WW2 James Chapman
5. Today Germany Tomorrow the World. Nazi Propaganda and Total War, 1943-45
David Welch Cold War and Post Cold War 6. The Tragedy of American Public
Diplomacy, 1989-1999: The Last Decade of the United States Information
Agency Reconsidered Nick Cull 7. Radio Free Asia and China's Harmonious
Society Gary Rawnsley 8. NATO's Information Warfare Edward Spiers Strategic
Communications 9. Strategic Communications and the Combatant Commander
Jeffrey B. Jones, Daniel T. Kuehl, Daniel Burgess, Russell Rochte 10.
British Military Doctrine and Strategy and the Importance of Propaganda
Kate Utting 11. Bridging the Firewall? Information Operations in US Army
Doctrine in the Iraq War 2003-2005. Stephen Badsey Contemporary Modes of
Propaganda and the War on Terrorism 12. (Mis)Communication Wars: Terrorism,
Counterterrorism and the Media Cristina Archetti 13. WikiLeaks and
Cybersecurity: New Modes of Propaganda David Culbert 14. 'Telling it like
it is'; Contemporary War, Propaganda and the State Piers Robinson Select
Bibliography Index