What is Propaganda?
That’s a good question. Most people don’t really know. In fact, many academics are still…
Browsing: Propaganda
Plugged in and Persuaded: Participatory Propaganda
Are We Prepared for Propaganda in a Digital Age? This is the dawning of the…
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Strategic Communications and Countering Violent Extremism
There has been a growing focus on using strategic communication to counter violent extremism. And,…
Brexit’s Hearts Over Minds: The Tale of Two Campaigns
A week after an historic referendum in Britain, a strategic communications analysis of two campaigns…
The Practice of Influence Operations in a Digital Age – A Brief Primer
With the release of its 2016 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders proclaimed “we…
Polls of Persuasion: Beware of the Horse Race
What’s more important in a political race: Who wins the race or what the winner…
You’ve Been Trumped: The Perils of Sociological Propaganda
Mark 3:25 – And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand”.…
Mutually Assured Mental Destruction
“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war”. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare Fighting propaganda with…
Establishment Fibs & Fears
More difficult to discern are those mistruths that are fed from positions of power. Even…
Wishful Thinking & Propaganda
We want to believe things that confirm our existing viewpoints, and propagandists know this. The…