Invisible Rulers The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality by Renee DiResta, 2024
An essential and riveting analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz, 2024
In Stories Are Weapons , best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats―the essential tool kit for psychological warfare―have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars.
Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda From the Philippines to Iraq by Susan A. Brewer, 2011
In Why America Fights, Brewer offers a fascinating history of how successive presidents have conducted what Donald Rumsfeld calls "perception management," from McKinley's war in the Philippines to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Artist Jonas Staal published his book Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press) in 2019. If you want to know his suggestive ideas about the relationship between art and propaganda you can also read his doctoral thesis: Propaganda Art from the 20th to the 21st Century (2018) #OpenAccess#LeidenUniversity
"I have come to the conclusion that modern and contemporary propaganda can be defined as a performance of power".
A Chinese ship type has been claimed to be among "traditional ships of the past Malay maritime civilisation", using the model of a "Foochow pole junk" in the National #MaritimeMuseum at Greenwich UK & misrepresenting it to be in Jakarta. Serge Jardin & James Chin have called out the academics, their university, & the publisher.
📖 In a chapter of the book "Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain", Vera Marques Alves explores how modernism and transnational connections shaped the folklore policy of the Estado Novo, in particular the nationalist uses of folk carried out by the regime's propaganda service (the Secretariat of National Propaganda).
The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.
We’re in agreement there. My (unsolicited) opinion is three very qualified professionals got railroaded by histrionic idiots in the public and in Congress engaging in performative self-aggrandizing and hypocritical bullshit.
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Thanks for saying so, and you're exactly right: performative. I find it hard to believe that their legal advice didn't include distinguishing first amendment issues from school conduct rules.
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
@Podophyllum@CitizenWald@histodons "Jews and Arabs are all really children of the House of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4000 years." The accusation of #colonization is #propaganda and used to #weaponize#hatred#terrorism#historymatters
@yogthos This text uses several manipulative techniques:
Biased language: The phrases "media hysteria", "alleged Russian atrocities", "rampages by Israeli troops and settlers" all communicate the author's perspective or bias right off the bat, rather than presenting facts objectively. The strong language manipulates the reader's empathy and emotions.
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
US media covers up Israeli war crimes in Jenin (www.wsws.org)