Where's Noam? On the Absence of References to Noam Chomsky in Introductory International Studies Textbooks*

Woods, Lawrence T.

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“…However, and corresponding to the argument made about the elite-orientated, instrumentalist and problem solving nature of political communication research, this stream of critical research has frequently been side-lined (Herring and Robinson, 2003;Woods, 2006;McChesney and Pickard, 2017;Zollmann, 2018b). McChesney and Pickard (2017) recently noted that the elitedriven paradigm, "with its emphasis on political economic and normative questions, has often been marginalized in American mass communication scholarship."…”

Section: Critical Political Communication Researchmentioning

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Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through “Propaganda Studies”

Robinson¹

2019

Front. Commun.

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Understanding how power is exercised through communication is central to understanding the socio-political world around us. To date, however, political communication research has been limited by an over-emphasis on 'problem solving' research which, by and large, reflects the interests and concerns of more powerful political actors. Even the marginalized critical political communication literature is limited by is focus on only media. To resolve these limitations, this paper argues that propaganda studies can help to widen and deepen the reach of existing political communication research. It can do so by alerting us to the wide range of actors involved in propaganda production and dissemination, including governments, academics, NGOs, think tanks and popular culture, as well as the manipulative, and non-consensual modes of persuasive communication, including deception, incentivization, and coercion. As such, a research agenda based on propaganda studies can provide a fuller and more accurate understanding of the role of communication in the exercise of power, serving better the objectives of speaking truth to power, holding power to account and facilitating better, more democratic, forms of organized persuasive communication.

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Section: Critical Political Communication Researchmentioning

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Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through “Propaganda Studies”

Robinson¹

2019

Front. Commun.

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“…6 Woods identified a similar pattern across a corpus of introductory texts to International Relations. 7 Since then, however, many important mainstream accounts of media-state relations have, to varying degrees, reflected or concurred with many of the basic claims made in the Propaganda Model 8 whilst others have continued to draw attention to the importance of their work for understanding media-state relations 9 . It is perhaps possible then that there might now be some kind of generalised academic acknowledgement of the analysis they provide, at least for those who accept that there are powerful and significant constraints acting upon media autonomy such that their ability to speak truth to power and hold the powerful to account are not being met.…”

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Does the Propaganda Model Actually Theorise Propaganda?

Robinson

2018

The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness

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The Propaganda Model (PM), first published in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 2 and describing how corporate media serve as conduits for business and government propaganda, has weathered many criticisms over the years. Derided by some as 'simplistic' or 'conspiratorial' , shunned by the 'respectable' academy and, perhaps more often than not, simply ignored, the model has, however, stood the test of time and, at least to this writer, it seems that there is little in the way of substantial disagreement amongst many scholars with the basic claims put forward in the model. The way in which the model has been adopted by researchers has not been optimal, however, and this chapter puts forward the case for a significant expansion of the model and the way it is employed so as to provide a more thorough-going analysis of the strategies and organisations actually involved in the creation of propaganda: as such, I argue for an expansion to the model which would allow it to live up to its name. To be clear, this is not necessarily a criticism of How to cite this book chapter:

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“…Although content analysis has been conducted in numerous disciplines, the pedagogical literature regarding IR textbooks is not extensive. Woods () examines 25 textbooks for references to Noam Chomsky finding that his work has all but been ignored by recent IR textbooks based on the index citations. Plischke () focuses specifically on the treatment of diplomacy, Hall () looks at how textbooks address international law, while Enterline () questions how IR textbooks handle change in the international system by analyzing five texts.…”

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Where Have All the Theories Gone? Teaching Theory in Introductory Courses in International Relations

Matthews

Callaway

2014

Int Stud Perspect

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In an effort to determine the extent and level of theoretical coverage in introductory International Relations (IR) textbooks, we conduct both latent and manifest analyses of IR theories in 18 undergraduate texts in the discipline. Focusing on realism, liberalism, constructivism, Marxism, and feminism, we find the bulk of theoretical content in chapters that specifically focus on theory. There is much less theoretical discussion in the issue chapters of most introductory texts. While some continue to stress, highlight, and even expand upon the theories in subsequent chapters, just as many focus on the content of the issues and less on providing students with a theoretical assessment of that issue. We discuss the pedagogical ramifications of these findings.

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Where's Noam? On the Absence of References to Noam Chomsky in Introductory International Studies Textbooks*

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through “Propaganda Studies”

Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through “Propaganda Studies”

Does the Propaganda Model Actually Theorise Propaganda?

Where Have All the Theories Gone? Teaching Theory in Introductory Courses in International Relations

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