Propaganda posters

It is a stone-hard fact that people at the top of entertainment, politics, and consumer culture got there by deceiving their audiences with stretched-out truths and made-up stories. They understand that in order to be successful in gaining followers, one must know that the most important skill in the art of entertainment is artifice. It is crucial for us, the audience, to recognize artifice used in political theater, consumer culture, and the entertainment business so that we can not be as…

A great way to better understand audiences is to analyze the ways in which they are represented in the news. Throughout the semester, some “audience in the news” examples that were presented to COMM 3P18 can definitely be used to further understand both the theories of uses and gratifications and public opinion and audience citizenship. These theories can also be examined through analyzing a recent article from the guardian, titled “CBC’s racist comment sections spark debate on Canada’s…

Long before President Trump coined the term “Fake news,” it used to be known as propaganda that intentionally misleads its readers to gain attention. In essence, Fake news is unsupported data that is based on the media's biased outlook on certain issues. i.e. a health-based organization will search for the tiniest research that indicates that a certain food is unhealthy, when the majority of research actually points that this is untrue. But since there is a single published research paper on the…

Propaganda is a political tool that has been around for centuries. Heightened in times of war and turmoil, the propaganda efforts during the Second World War saw an unprecedented rise in perceived importance to the war effort. Part of this rise was through new technology, including multimedia outlets such as radios, movies, and news literature. While propaganda became a tool used by every nation, British propaganda specifically, utilized motifs of good and evil in attempts to continually…

In analyzing this speech, it can be seen that it operated as a work of propaganda. By propaganda, it is here meant to refer to the deliberate and systematic use of media technology and discoursive tactics to persuade an audience on a matter. In this speech, Roosevelt has clear positions which he is trying to convince people of. He seeks to convince people that his economic policies (notably NIRA, banking regulations, and deviating from the gold standard) and that his notion of collective…

Propaganda is a text that is biased, and misleading to promote a political point of view. Looking at the text I can know that it is propaganda. This is because the picture and the text makes Japanese people look very bad, they also make the people feeling afraid, and also because it says ‘”inevitable” Pacific War has finally come’. The first thing that points out that this text is propaganda is that it makes the Japanese look like a monster. The picture in the back makes the Japanese look…

“Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people… Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea.” This quote is from the book Hitler wrote in 1926, Mein Kampf. People believe what they like to hear. He got his messages through to the public by using many obstacles. Propaganda helped Hitler gain power because he said he was Germany’s only hope. Propaganda had been essential to Hitler and the Nazis in use of…

Wartime is an extremely sensitive period of time for every country who got involved in. Whatever war it is and whatever goal a country has, wartime propaganda is always an essential tool for promoting the morale of the people or sometimes, even winning the war. Acknowledging the urgency to bind the nation together, the government promoted the value and ideologies they favored or expected the people to behave during wartimes by applying multimedia, which included war painting, Kamishibai, the two…

It is frequently thought that propagandas are negative things that spread false and/or misleading information. Propagandas often get different responses from people since we all interpret things differently. A type of propaganda that has been talked about a lot in the news in Beyoncé's Formation. There are so many ways this video has been interpreted. The message I see in the video is that she's standing with the black community. The song itself is trap music which is generally associated with…

Propaganda in George Orwell’s 1984 “Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” as said by Eric Hoffer, unintentionally depicting the world of George Orwell’s 1984, in which propaganda leads people to deceive themselves into believing usually false concepts. Propaganda can be traced back to 1622, where Pope Gregory XV defined it as “convincing large numbers of people about the veracity of a given set of ideas”, according to a website titled A Brief History…