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William Wishart Biddle (June 19, 1900 – February 1973) was an American social scientist and a major contributor to the study of community development. [1] [2] Although details of his personal life are rare in written records, he made contributions to the field of psychology by developing frameworks in propaganda, education, and community development.
Nasheed is known online for his controversial commentary on race. [17] He is a proponent of "Foundational Black Americans" (FBA), an ideology and movement he founded, [18] which is defined as, "any person classified as Black, who can trace their bloodline lineage back to the American system of slavery.
Harold D. Laswell's definition targets even more precisely the technical aspect: "Propaganda in the broadest sense is the technique of influencing human action by the manipulation of representations. These representations may take spoken, written, pictorial or musical form." [2]
The United States government has used propaganda broadcasts against the Cuban government through TV Marti, based in Miami, Florida. However, the Cuban government has been successful at jamming the signal of TV Marti. In the Iraq War, the United States used the shock and awe campaign to psychologically maim and break the will of the Iraqi Army ...
James Montgomery Flagg’s famous “Uncle Sam” propaganda poster, made during World War I. Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational ...
If propaganda is "the consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group", [2] crowd manipulation is the relatively brief call to action once the seeds of propaganda (i.e. more specifically "pre-propaganda" [3]) are sown and the public is organized into a crowd.
Propaganda, a book written by Edward Bernays in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Bernays wrote the book in response to the success of some of his earlier works such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and A Public Relations ...
Buck passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is often used to refer to a strategy in power politics whereby a state tries to get another state to deter or fight an aggressor state while it remains on the sidelines.