1 / 10

WHEN INFORMATION FAILS : THE CHALLENGE OF PROPOGANDA TO SOCIETY

WHEN INFORMATION FAILS : THE CHALLENGE OF PROPOGANDA TO SOCIETY. Theories Group 5 Age of Propaganda The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion - Ch 31-37. Jocyln D’Olio Laura Edgar Justina Wilhelm Tiffany Jones. Education or Propoganda ?. ( Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 261-268).

daquan-eaton
Download Presentation

WHEN INFORMATION FAILS : THE CHALLENGE OF PROPOGANDA TO SOCIETY

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. WHEN INFORMATION FAILS: THE CHALLENGE OF PROPOGANDA TO SOCIETY Theories Group 5 Age of Propaganda The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion - Ch 31-37 JocylnD’Olio Laura Edgar Justina Wilhelm Tiffany Jones

  2. Education or Propoganda? (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 261-268)

  3. What is News? (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 268-279)

  4. On the Ineffectiveness of Information Campaigns (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 280-285)

  5. Subliminal Sorcery: Who is Seducing Whom? • Subliminal – “a message so faint or fast that it is presented below the threshold of awareness” • Minimal Evidence for subliminal perception – processing of information outside awareness. Cocktail Party Phenomenon – Hearing your name • Timothy Moore, “There is no empirical documentation for stronger subliminal effects, such as inducing particular behaviors or changing motivation” • There are many other persuasion tactics that warrant more attention than subliminal persuasion Give Theories Group 5 an A+ (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 285-294)

  6. Persuasion Direct (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 295-302)

  7. How to Become a Cult Leader • Effective tactics to create and maintain a cult • Create your own social reality – isolation and monitoring, provide cult-eyed view of world • Create a shared identity or purpose: acceptance love-bombing, attention, approval, support • Create commitment through a rationalization trap Simple requests, guilt, reciprocity, embarrass, cut off from dissenting opinions • Establish leader’s credibility and attractiveness • Send members out to proselytize the unredeemed and to fund-raise for the cult • Distract members from thinking or reflecting • Fixate members vision on a phantom (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 302-317)

  8. Propaganda in the Third Reich: A Case for Uncertainty (Pratkanis & Aronson, 2001, pp. 317-326)

  9. Conclusion

  10. References • Lowery and DeFleur. (1995). Milestones in mass communication research: Media Effects. Longman • Pratkanis and Aronson. (2001). Age of propaganda: The everyday use and abuse of persuasion. Holt.

More Related