Facebook Promotional-Propaganda Observations While I completed this observation on 18 and 19 February, I observe this phenomenon daily on the Internet and in the external world. I have observed all varieties of propaganda in the everyday for far longer than Facebook has been around, Facebook exemplifies what is most fascinating about this phenomenon: the example of unintentional propaganda… Read More
Reflections on Subjectivity, Role, Access, Ethics (This is something that I have considered since working for local network television news. The readings lately and the other students viewpoint on this have just codified what I have known all along. Now I just have to find a way to research with this in mind. Stay tuned.) Everyone has a bias, and objectivity… Read More
Reflections on My Driving Research Interests My driving research interests are more like lifelong passions, as any glance into one of several bookshelves of my library will reveal. However, those interests are usually distilled into a few topics that contain a myriad of additional subjects. I am fascinated by sociology in general, but I am especially fascinated by how people react… Read More
Mark Twain On Propaganda While he does not use the word outright, his description is a dead-on description of our discussion, the application of propaganda to Goffman’s impression management in the frame analysis of small groups. Indeed, it’s still a “duck,” as they say. “In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at… Read More
Propaganda as Musical Pop Culture Part 1 These songs scream propaganda to me and I have been fascinated by them for many years. I am sure there are others. If you encounter others, please send them my way. My friend, Ian Sklar, gave me something to ponder when he wrote, “Made me wonder whether the songs were meant to influence the listener… Read More
A Possible Idea For Study From a Friend This site is many things for me. It is a sketch pad for doodles, for fleshing out article ideas, and for suggestions from friends, like this one below. “Yes I watched TV more in those days. In fact there is a channel here that features a lot of the best shows of the 60s and… Read More
Cultural Conditioning Part One At the point I wrote this passage, I was convinced that the subject of propaganda was one which I might be unable to introduce to my academic general public. While I believe that academia is better suited to accept the word on its own terms, I still observe more than subtle indications that the word… Read More