COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Disinformation, Typewriter, Brail
20 Mar 2014
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Neutralist: no negative connotations to the word propaganda . Simply a way of persuading people but it is not negative. Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist. Types of propaganda: white (source is correctly identified and it announces itself as propaganda), grey (messaging that you can"t tell who author is, not clear), black (misinformation, disinformation, attempt to misidentify the source). Propaganda can interject ideas/beliefs into ones brain (massive, direct. Habermas: as human species we have a way to communicate openly particularly through speech. 3) capacity to appraise things ethically or morally. Rise of the new psychology (20th century): ideas about humans and information processing and rational beings at heart interested in the exchange of reason, that"s a fairytale account on how people interact.
