Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent

by Alan Macleod (Editor)

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the 21st century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself.

2018 marks 30 years since the publication of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's ground-breaking book Manufacturing Consent, which lifted the veil over how the mass media operate. The book's model presented five filters which all potentially newsworthy events must pass through before they reach our TV screens, smartphones or newspapers. In Propaganda in the Information Age, many of the world's leading media scholars, analysts and journalists use this model to explore the modern media world, covering some of the most pressing contemporary topics such as fake news, Cambridge Analytica, the Syrian Civil War and RussiaGate. The collection also acknowledges that in an increasingly globalized world, our media is increasingly globalized as well, with chapters exploring both Indian and African media.

For students of Media Studies, Journalism, Communication and Sociology, Propaganda in the Information Age offers a fascinating introduction to the propaganda model and how it can be applied to our understanding not only of how media functions in corporate America, but across the world in the 21st Century.

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History

172 pages, Paperback

Published May 13, 2019

Reviews

[Mister Oolong]

I was in the middle of Manufacturing Consent when I decided to read this book concurrently. It was a fast read and did a solid job of applying the Propaganda Model in a modern context. Compared to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's original work, I for whatever reason found it a little less interesting (though admittedly I have still yet to finish the original), but it nevertheless reaffirmed the relevance of the Propaganda Model and I was left with much to think about when I look at the news, especially from online sources.

[Μίλτος Τρ.]

Θα μπορούσε το Μοντέλο Προπαγάνδας των Χέρμαν και Τσόμσκι να ισχύει σήμερα, 30 χρόνια μετά τη διατύπωση του; Την τρομακτική απάντηση τη δίνουν case studies από ΗΠΑ, Ινδία, Συρία, Ρωσία και η διάδοση των fake news. Θα δεις τις ειδήσεις με άλλο μάτι. ;)

[Medhat ullah]

a pervasive topic in the age of information and overwhelming amount of negative & fake news :P

[Erkan Saka]

A good update on the manufacturing consent literature.