Propaganda and Democracy - The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion

Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive study on the relationship of propaganda to participatory democracy in the United States during the twentieth century. This study critically examines various schools of thought in an effort to determine and understand the contribution and effects of propaganda in a democratic society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Discovering propaganda; 2. The progressive propaganda critics; 3. Different lessons I: managed democracy; 4. Different lessons II: protecting the public; 5. Propaganda analysis, incorporated; 6. Propaganda for democracy; 7. The new communication - or the old propaganda?

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• Authors: J. Michael Sproule, J. Michael (San Jose State University Sproule, J.Michael Sproule
• Assisted by: Garth Jowett (Editor), Kenneth Short (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521022002
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02200-2
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries