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Propaganda

What La Generalista has to say: From the father of modern public relations (and nephew…

Propaganda: Power and Persuasion

What La Generalista has to say: This is a tidy, pictorial history of modern propaganda.…

Spinfluence

What La Generalista has to say: Spinfluence is an entertaining and easy-to-read primer on all…

Contagious

Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger is an insightful study of what sort of…

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La Generalista is the online identity of Alicia Wanless – a researcher and practitioner of strategic communications for social change in a Digital Age. Learn more about her work here
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With a growing international multi-stakeholder community, the Partnership aims to foster evidence-based policymaking to counter threats within the information environment. Wanless is currently a PhD Researcher at King’s College London exploring how the information environment can be studied in similar ways to the physical environment. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and was a tech advisor to Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder. Her work has been featured in Lawfare, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, and CBC.
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Five Came Back
If you haven’t tuned into the new series “Five Came Back” yet – and are interested in propaganda – fire…
- 30/12/2016
  The Fourth Revolution
- 04/12/2016
  Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism
- 30/07/2016
  Invisible Influence
Recent Posts

Disinformation, Persuasion, and the Information Environment
At the 2018 RightsCon conference in Toronto, we had the opportunity to test an experimental…

Participatory Propaganda and the 2018 Ontario Election
Two “grassroots” political Facebook pages outstripped official party pages in follower engagement during the 2018…

Integrating Information Activities into Training
Special Report Integrating Information Activities into Training This report draws from a talk prepared and…

For Every Action There is an Information Reaction
Originally published by The Strategy Bridge with Michael Berk The internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and…

Cambridge Analytica: Persuasion and Manipulation
Cambridge Analytica has blurred the line between persuasion and manipulation The company identified the psychographics…

Yes, Canada is vulnerable to information cyber attacks
Originally published by CBC Yes, Canada is vulnerable to information cyber attacks. There’s an added…