Constructing America's War Culture
Iraq, Media, and Images at Home
In 1927, political scientist Harold Lasswell wrote about the strategies employed by the American government to sell the benefits of participating in World War I to a reluctant public. In Propaganda Techniques in World War I, Lasswell discussed the manipulative symbols to manipulate opinions and attitudes (p 9). Ever since then, all wars have involved specialists who attempt to control the way the media report about war and the way media contribute to shaping public opinion. This collection of essays discusses how media have packaged the war in Iraq. The chapters in this collection explore the way the media have presented the war to us by tell…
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Weitere Autoren: Hanson, Jarice (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-1964-8
- EAN: 9780739119648
- Produktnummer: 3443804
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 270 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 270
Über den Autor
Thomas Conroy is professor in the Communication Department at Castleton State College, Vermont. Jarice Hanson is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and currently holds the Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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