Propaganda in the Information Age,Alan MacLeod (Sous la direction de)

-Résumé

the propaganda model is still an indispensable method of understanding not just how corporate American, but global, media function and that the central theory of the propaganda model is perhaps more relevant today as it was in 1988.
In Chapter 1, Manufacturing Consent co-author Noam Chomsky discusses the history and reaction to the book, the changes in the media landscape and the incredible power accumulated by new media monopolies like Amazon and Google, and shares his thoughts on current issues in modern media, including Russiagate, Syria and fake news in the era of Trump.
In Chapter 2, Florian Zollmann takes us through the new research on the propaganda model, research that deals with the new media landscape, assessing the performance of the model in explaining media behaviour today. He also explores the media’s systematic discrimination based on class, race and gender, arguing that these should be seen as filters affecting media performance.

Chapter 3 addresses the strength and relevance of each of the five filters today, arguing that most, if not all, of them shape news production more forcefully than previously, due to the changing nature of the profession, where journalists are under more structural pressure and have less creative freedom than ever before.
The following three chapters deal with modern issues in propaganda. Chapter 4 deals with the rise to prevalence of Russia as a bête noire in Western, particularly American, politics. It argues that the anti-communist fifth filter has been revived as an anti-Russian filter, where organizations, political figures and media who do not fall into the acceptable beltway of opinion or question the liberal obsession with investigating Moscow are tarred as “Putin’s puppets” and “Russian agents” in a form of liberal McCarthyism. In Chapter
5, Oliver Boyd-Barrett discusses the creation of supposedly independent and legitimate sources in order to sway the media coverage of foreign reporting in hotspots like Syria.
Chapter 6 examines the applicability of the propaganda model to Hollywood movies and explores the US military and CIA’s enormous effort to propagandize the public through influencing television, film and computer games, a fact largely unknown to the public. The next three chapters detail the propaganda model in an international context.
We live in a far more globalized world than in the 1980s, and our media has
evolved to reflect this. Chapters 7 and 8 address the Indian media. First, Ruhi Khan explores the structural factors affecting the reporting of the IL&FS scandal, then Azmat Rasul discusses the increasingly close relationship between the Indian state and Bollywood cinema. In Chapter 9 Jacinta Mwende Maweu examines how new media technologies were used to hijack democracy in the 2017 elections in Kenya, manufacturing consent for President Kenyatta. Kenyatta employed controversial firm Cambridge Analytica to run “just about everything” about his
campaign and party. It then mounted a massive fake news campaign to mislead the public into supporting him and rejecting his challenger, Raila Odinga.
There has been very little work on the propaganda model from a journalist’s perspective. In Chapter 10, Matt Kennard presents a first-hand account of what working in journalism under the propaganda model is like, exploring the pre-selection of “right-thinking” journalists, the groupthink in the newsroom
and editorial censorship.
Together, these chapters explore the propaganda model’s continued relevance in the digital era.

-CONTENTS

Introduction: Propaganda in the information age
Alan MacLeod
1 -Still manufacturing consent: an interview with
Noam Chomsky 12
  Alan MacLeod and Noam Chomsky
2 -A propaganda model for the twenty-first century: structure agency dynamics and the       intersection of class, gender and race
  Florian Zollmann
3-Assessing the strength of the five filters today 45
 Alan MacLeod
4- Fake news, Russian bots and Putin’s puppets 65
  Alan MacLeod
5- Deflective source propaganda: a Syrian case study
  Oliver Boyd-Barrett
6- Expanding the propaganda model to the entertainment
industry: an interview with Matthew Alford
  Alan MacLeod and Matthew Alford

7- Still compromising news: obfuscation and evasion as dominant
  filters in Indian media’s coverage of the IL&FS financial scandal
  Tabassum Ruhi Khan
8- International public relations and the propaganda model: a
critical analysis of Bollywood blockbusters
  Azmat Rasul
9- Still manufacturing consent in the digital era: disinformation,

 “fake news” and propaganda in the 2017 elections in Kenya
 Jacinta Mwende Maweu

10- Working inside the racket: an insider’s perspective to the elite media
  Matt Kennard
 Conclusion: New media, same old rules
 Alan Macleod

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Date de parution :13 mai 2019

N.de pages : 182 pages

ISBN-10 : 1138366404

ISBN-13 : 978-1138366404

Poids : 363 g

Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.04 x 23.39 cm

Éditeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais