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  1. Apr 15, 2021 · This essay argues that the recent scholarship on misinformation and fake news suffers from a lack of historical contextualization. The fact that misinformation scholarship has, by and large, failed to engage with the history of propaganda and with how propaganda has been studied by media and communication researchers is an empirical detriment ...

    • C. W. Anderson
    • 2021
  2. Aug 30, 2013 · Branding and advertising has become a major aspect of social media for all businesses, with a far greater personalisation to match the needs of consumers. By promoting brands, we are engaging in issuing propaganda on their behalf. Social media has enormous potential, which is why China, for example, has its own social media site, Weibo.

  3. Propaganda has changed to take advantage of the affordances of what we call the “new” media system, ushered in by the internet, social media, and related forms of digital communication. 12 Close Social media in particular, with its anonymity and capacity for automation, has allowed for a substantively different form of propaganda—one where both computational tools (such as bots) and ...

  4. Jan 8, 2020 · Yet, despite such a long history of practice and research, the propaganda still does not have a clear place among other communication activities; some scholars and practitioners keep using the words like propaganda, public relations, public diplomacy, or advertising interchangeably, while others refer to propaganda as something bad, negative, and inherently evil, that should be avoided at all ...

    • Alexander V Laskin
    • 2019
  5. Apr 1, 2021 · Propaganda Analysis Revisited. This special issue is designed to place our contemporary post-truth impasse in historical perspective. Drawing comparisons to the Propaganda Analysis research paradigm of the Interwar years, this essay and issue call attention to historical similarities between patterns in mass communication research then and now.

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  7. Aug 24, 2020 · The research literature on misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda is vast and sprawling. This chapter discusses descriptive research on the supply and availability of misinformation, patterns of exposure and consumption, and what is known aboutmechanisms behind its spread through networks. It provides a brief overview of theliterature ...