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Global Communication and Propaganda
In: Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2025), pp. 153-198
"Propaganda involves the persuasive communication process to influence and convert individuals and the public at large, directly or implicitly, through the use of purposively chosen and partial, or even fabricated, disinformation [...] Regarding the understanding of propaganda, the first mistake is
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Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 4th ed. (2025), xxxiv, 443 pp.
"Twenty-four highly accomplished and prominent media scholars representing ten countries provide a survey of international communication, public relations and advertising, implications of globalization, international law and regulation, global culture, propaganda, transnational media, the shifting p
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Long Live Chairman Mao: Propaganda About Mao Zedong in Chinese Primary School Textbooks (1984–1999)
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3647-3667
"This article examines the portrayal of Mao Zedong in Chinese literacy textbooks published within the context of the Patriotic Education Campaign during the 1980s and 1990s. Employing critical discourse analysis, this study reveals that Mao is depicted as an authoritative, charismatic, and industrio
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Jiangshanjiao, Do You Get Your Period? Understanding Feminist Expressions Against State Propaganda in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3711-3729
"In February 2020, the Communist Youth League introduced two virtual idols, Jiangshanjiao and Hongqiman, on Weibo to gain political solidarity during COVID-19. However, the move sparked massive criticism for using an animated female idol while ignoring the needs of female medical workers in the pand
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Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2024), xii, 486 pp.
"Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consu
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The Media Manipulation Casebook
Cambridge, MA: Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2023)
"The Media Manipulation Casebook is a research platform [launched in 2019] that advances knowledge of misinformation and disinformation and their threats to democracy, public health, and security. The Casebook is a resource for building the field of Critical Internet Studies by equipping researchers
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TV-Talkshows als Propagandainstrument Russlands im Ukrainekonflikt (2014)
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2022), xix, 478 pp.
"Wie wird Propaganda im Medium Fernsehen im 21. Jahrhundert gemacht und welche Strategien werden dafür verwendet? Diesen Fragen geht die vorliegende Studie nach, indem sie die mediale Berichterstattung in Russland über den Konflikt in der Ukraine im Jahr 2014 untersucht. Im Fokus stehen russische
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Solidarity Through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad
International Studies Quarterly, issue 66, sqac012 (2022), 14 pp.
"As conspiracy theories have become a popular form of political discourse worldwide, states have promoted conspiratorial ideas to advance their foreign policy goals. Yet, despite recent attention to the spread of propaganda abroad, scholars have not addressed whether and how conspiracy theories spre
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"This report explores how the Chinese party-state's globally focused propaganda and disinformation capabilities are evolving and increasing in sophistication. Concerningly, this emerging approach by the Chinese party-state to influence international discourse on China, including obfuscating its reco
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Russia – YouTube and Global Platforms: A New Battleground for Russian Journalists and Bloggers
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 13 pp.
"In the late 2010s, the Internet overtook television as the most popular media format in Russia. It was also the time when Russian-speaking YouTube went political: well-known bloggers started producing political content, opposition politicians became the most popular YouTubers, and finally mainstrea
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China's Propaganda on the War in Ukraine
China Leadership Monitor, issue 22 (2022), 13 pp.
"Although China's official position on the war has been that of neutrality-not aligning with the West against Russia and not directly supporting Russia's war in Ukraine-its communications about the war, in particular its propaganda via state media and Foreign Ministry spokespeople have carried a mor
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The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxvi, 582 pp.
"This companion brings together various concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism. The companion is theoretically and methodologically comprehensive and features various historical and critical approaches providing a full and incisive understanding of media, misinforma
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Overlooking the Political Economy in the Research on Propaganda
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue special issue (2021), 14 pp.
"A thematic meta-analysis – of recent literature on online propaganda in the context of the Global South, and 20 Facebook-funded research projects in 2018 – shows that research is overwhelmingly focused on the psychological and behavioral impacts of propaganda. This research advocates for promot
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Nationalsozialismus digital: Die Verantwortung von Bibliotheken, Archiven und Museen sowie Forschungseinrichtungen und Medien im Umgang mit der NS-Zeit im Netz
Göttingen: V&R unipress; Vienna University Press (2021), 360 pp.
"[...] Im günstigen Falle bilden Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen, Forschungseinrichtungen und Medien mit digitalen Angeboten, geeignet kontextualisiert und erklärt, Anlaufpunkte der Orientierung und befördern den Diskurs über den Nationalsozialismus und die damit verbundenen abscheulichen Gräuelt
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Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation: Causes, Trends, and Their Influence on Democracy
Sarajevo: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2020), 38 pp.
"The aim of this paper is to investigate the phenomena of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, as well as their impact on the political sphere. In addition, the paper attempts to explain the harmful influence of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation on public debates, dem
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The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt
London: HarperCollins (2020), xv, 390 pp.
"It is paramount, MIT social media expert Sinan Aral says, that we recognize the outsized impact social media has on our culture, our democracy, and our lives in order to steer today's social technology toward good, while avoiding the ways it can pull us apart. Otherwise, we could fall victim to wha
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The Sage Handbook of Propaganda
London et al.: Sage (2020), 612 pp.
"The Sage Handbook of Propaganda unpacks the ever-present and exciting topic of propaganda to explain how it invades the human psyche, in what ways it does so, and in what contexts. As a beguiling tool of political persuasion in times of war, peace, and uncertainty, propaganda incites people to take
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Fake News und Desinformation: Herausforderungen für die vernetzte Gesellschaft und die empirische Forschung
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 361 pp.
"Desinformation ist eine Konstante der politischen Kommunikation. Doch mit der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten und der Brexit-Abstimmung in Großbritannien erhielten bewusst lancierte Falschnachrichten eine neue gesellschaftliche Bedeutung. Denn nun wurde sichtbar, welche
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Pillars of Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State (2020), 76 pp.
"Russia has operationalized the concept of perpetual adversarial competition in the information environment by encouraging the development of a disinformation and propaganda ecosystem that allows for varied and overlapping approaches that reinforce each other even when individual messages within the
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Lügen, Hass und Desinformation: Lateinamerika in postfaktischen Zeiten
Perspectivas (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), issue 6 (2020), 36 pp.
"In Lateinamerika haben Politiker wie Bolsonaro in Brasilien oder Bukele in El Salvador die Präsidentschaftswahlen nicht zuletzt durch ihre Abgrenzung vom politischen Establishment gewonnen, ungeachtet dessen, dass auch sie schon lange zu diesem von ihnen so diskreditierten Politikbetrieb gehören.
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