Posters, Propaganda and Persuasion in Election - Steven A. Seidman

Soviet Propaganda Posters

Strategies of Persuasion, Manipulation and Propaganda: Psychological and Social Aspects

Some of us believe that we can change the world for the better, and that it doesn’t take many committed individuals to do so. We are not necessarlly trapped in Hardin’s (1968) tragedy of the commons. Others believe that with enough commitment and sophisticated communication strategies they can at least change the world for the better for themselves, whatever their motives might be. Perhaps this...

Using YouTube to Teach Presidential Election Propaganda : Twelve Representative Videos

concepts to fully understand the propaganda they encounter every time they turn on their televisions or surf the Internet during an election year. If students are to make informed political decisions as adults, then they must learn to decipher ways politicians manipulate media. The good news is that access to presidential propaganda has never been easier. The Internet, in particular, is a wonde...

Images of Propaganda: World War I and World War II Posters

America's entry into World War I on April 6, 1917 created an immediate need for a large-scale, nationwide publicity campaign such as this country had never before mounted. Posters played an important role in this endeavor and gained widespread use as instruments of propaganda. In the days before the development of electronic media, governments of fighting nations used this eye-catching, visuall...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...