Propaganda Analysis-To What Ends?

Garber, William F.

doi:10.1086/219125

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“…Ironic for an institution focusing attention on rhetoric instead of political economic structure, the IPA suspended its operations in order to preserve national unity, and many of its members transitioned to war communication work. Garber (1942) criticised the movement for having fostered "cheap skepticism" and undermining holistic reasoning and the place of value judgement in analysis. Riegel (1935) voiced similar concerns over the spread of what he described as "propagantitis", with those infected no longer judging information on its own merit but instead seeing political manipulation in all communication.…”

Section: Propagandamentioning

confidence: 99%

Guarding information’s Other: Theorising beyond information and communications technologies for disinformation

Nicolai

2023

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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If Plato’s allegory of information trouble occurred within a torchlit cave, the scale and scope of technical developments in information and communication technologies have not superseded his perennial concerns. Drawing from the sociology of knowledge and objectivity in news, in this article, I examine a set of cases of contested information within American communication. Beyond reductionist approaches to objectivity and falsehood in information, these cases bring to light political and cultural contestation over the presentation, omission, and selection of information, as well as value in speculative information. Taken together, these highlight the need for a framework to cover a range of informational issues. The proposed meta-classification of information’s Other opens an analytical space not only to account for today’s alleged information disorder, but also to address long-standing concerns with information order.

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Section: Propagandamentioning

confidence: 99%