COMM 100C

Propaganda

Tomorrow’s reading is the first couple of chapters from Stanley Cunningham‘s book The Idea of Propaganda.

How does the word “propaganda” act as a one of Boyer’s linguistic glosses? What does he mean by an “epistemology of propaganda”? Related to this, what is epistemology? What is the difference between a notion and a concept? Why does Cunningham not want to consider pre-20th century examples of propaganda? What are the different “types” of new propaganda?

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