The Propaganda Society Kartoniert (TB)

The Propaganda Society analyzes the rapid expansion of propaganda and promotional activities in the leading «post-industrial» states under the regime of neoliberalism. With the outsourcing of manufacturing these states have converted to service selling and speculative economies with a concurrent rapid growth of advertising marketing public relations sales management branding and other promotional enterprises. Aided by digital technologies and the removal - «deregulation» - of political legal administrative and moral barriers to state and corporate expansion on a global scale a gro up of dominant political and commercial actors have brought about a common discourse and convergent set of practices rooted in sophisticated and unprecedented levels of propaganda and promotion. Written by leading scholars in the field each of the eighteen chapters in this book discuss the ways in which elite uses of propaganda have radically transformed media and information systems political and public culture the conduct of war and foreign relations and the overall behavior of the state.