Kremlin Speak in Syria Communication scholars who study propaganda most often try to understand how people are fooled by such information operations. They are so often patently false. But I find it interesting that we often neglect the study the shifts made in propaganda. Not only do the targets of propaganda seem to swallow the … Continue reading Orwellian Shifts in Propaganda
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The War on Information and the Fifth Estate
Peter Pomerantsev, speaking about the role of the mass media in Russia, coined a valuable phrase, arguing that President Putin was not involved in an information war, as much as a ‘war on information’.* This is certainly seems to me to be an apt characterization of the Russian President’s strategy in debates over Ukraine. His … Continue reading The War on Information and the Fifth Estate