Propaganda is described as biased information used to misinform or promote a particular agenda or cause. It is designed to influence certain emotions or attitudes towards that specific agenda. It is ...
Propaganda is not simply a tool of manipulation, and in fact a professor of communication suggests it may even be a necessary skill for any citizen to address global challenges. After carrying out ...
The situation happening with Russia and Ukraine has the world’s attention. And depending on where one sits in the world the narrative seen, heard, and believed can be radically different. Why is that ...
Why are we so easily seduced by propaganda? Trace the history of the art of persuasion. Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies asks the question: why are we so easily seduced by propaganda? This film ...
A new advertisement put out by the National Rifle Association — which calls on conservatives to fight the left with a “clenched fist of truth” — has the Women’s March demanding an apology, activists ...
Scott Simon speaks with Harvard's Joan Donovan about the manipulation of videos and images from the Russia-Ukraine conflict on social media and how to identify propaganda. The onslaught of images, ...
At a recent academic conference, Tom Huckin put a couple of dozen copies of his syllabus on a table. He didn’t anticipate much interest. Still, he was proud of his new course, “Contemporary Propaganda ...
This article explores the propaganda techniques developed since the birth of the field in WWI. It advises how businesses can make the best use of these techniques—ethically and honestly—to grow and ...
A long time ago, when I was working on my Ph.D. research, I learned to use supercomputers to track the complex 3-D motions of gas blown into space by dying stars. Using big computers in this way was ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This game, whose full title is THE ...