Full Description
This edited collection comprehensively introduces propaganda studies to criminology academics, practitioners and students. It brings to life the challenges of analyzing, researching and responding to the problems of propaganda. It uses a broad definition of 'propaganda' to include such phenomena as 'fake news' and AI or algorithmic methods of control. It includes some more classic readings and analysis of propaganda studies through contemporary case studies, such as the war on drugs. It provides a key resource for research and teaching.
Contents
Chapter 1: Fake News is Nothing New: An Introduction to Propaganda Studies in Criminology - Deborah H. Drake and Reece Walters.- Chapter 2: How to Analyse Propaganda: A Case Study of the War on Drugs - Deborah H. Drake and Keir Irwin-Rogers.- Chapter 3: Propaganda as Incitement Towards and Justification for the Indonesian Genocide 1965-66 - Saskia E. Wieringa.- Chapter 4: Taking Conspiracy Thought Seriously: A Sociological Perspective - Luis Roniger and Leonardo Senkman.- Chapter 5: Gendered Environmental Propaganda: The Evolution of Far-Right Political Messaging in Australia and New Zealand - Imogen Richards & Callum Jones.- Chapter 6: The Emotional Dynamics of Love, Fear and Excitement: A Case Study of Jihadi Propaganda Magazines - Hans M. Sunde.- Chapter 7: Italy, Immigrants and Propaganda - Francesco Buscemi.-Chapter 8: Police Image Work on Social Media as Bureaucratic Propaganda - Christopher J. Schneider.- Chapter 9: Copaganda and Far-Right Police Influencers in Brazil: A Punitive Grammar of Corporate Practices - Felipe da Veiga Dias and Augusto Jobim do Amaral.- Chapter 10: Peddlers of Propaganda: Academic Copaganda, the Neoliberal University and the Police - Kenneth Dowler.- Chapter 11: Ethical Threats in a Post-Truth Era: Propaganda, Artificial Intelligence, and Coercive Control in the Legal Profession - Marin Dell.- Chapter 12: Fighting Fire with Facts: Detecting, Decoding, and Dismantling Online Propaganda - Ashton Kingdon.
