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Articles on Propaganda
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Media misinformation is hardly new. But social media amplifies it and makes it harder to correct.
How can journalists resist a master media manipulator, reach local communities and sift through fake news and propaganda? Media experts explore the challenges of covering the next administration.
NatWest’s decision to close RT accounts may not be the right move to win the information war against Russia.
A volunteer force that provides humanitarian aid in the worst of conditions, the White Helmets are the target of some very caustic conspiracy theory.
Europe’s efforts to counter Russian propaganda may need to be stepped up.
How Hitler’s Germany, fascist Italy and other authoritarian states tried to win friends and influence people.
South Africa’s parastatals are in a dire state. Instead of being the mandated sites of development and profitability, they are costing the public purse billions and have been abused.
There were high hopes that the SABC would become a true public broadcaster after the end of apartheid when it was used ruthlessly as a propaganda machine. But those hopes have since been dashed.
How Stalin and his successors maintained an iron grip on power.
Islamic State uses propaganda to coax its enemies into misguided politico-military and strategic communications efforts.
China’s Confucius Institutes given foreigners a chance to learn more about the country. Africa must be careful that its universities’ partnerships with Confucius Institutes don’t create dependency.
Talk of a ‘clash of civilisations’ and targeting refugees simply alienates the people the West needs to reach out to.
Anonymous strives to bring down IS propaganda before it reaches the masses.
ISIS uses the internet, especially social media, to propagandize and recruit. Members of hacker group Anonymous have turned their sights on these accounts.
The infamous Muldergate scandal of the 1970s was the exemplar case of apartheid’s “unorthodox diplomacy” of buying influence around the world.
The execution of austere British nurse Edith Cavell in World War I inspired music, art, poetry, propaganda - but no weeping.
There is a muscular, tattooed man holding a machine gun. He is in front of an expensive sports car, with gold chains around his neck and what looks like a Rolex on his wrist. The man is standing proudly…
Militants are tapping into centuries-old literary tastes, appropriating them for their own nefarious ends.
Tackling extremist and terrorist propaganda online is vital, but must be done with safeguards in mind.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Nottingham Trent University
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Essex
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor of Communications (Social Media), Syracuse University
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University Fellow in Law, Charles Darwin University
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Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University
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Lecturer European Politics, Leiden University
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Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
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Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service
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Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems