Thread of must-cite women academics in Propaganda Studies inc a few of the discipline's founders. Many lit reviews on classics of #Propaganda Studies recall only men, so... #citewomen#womenalsoknowstuff#womensequalityday - there will be more, any missing pls 4give me & add...
Elizabeth Briant Lee - Key text: 'The Fine Art of Propaganda' (with Alfred McClung Lee) (1939) archive.org/details/LeeFin…
Caroline Page - Key text: U.S. Official Propaganda During the Vietnam War, 1965-1973: The Limits of Persuasion (1996) worldcat.org/title/us-offic…
Frances Stonor Saunders - Key text: Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999) amazon.com/Who-Paid-Piper…
Alison Des Forges - Key text: Silencing the Voices of Hate in Rwanda (in Forging Peace) (2002) jstor.org/stable/10.3366…
Stephanie Farrior - Key text: Hate Propaganda and International Human Rights Law (2002) jstor.org/stable/10.3366…
RS Zaharna - Key text: From Propaganda to Public Diplomacy in an Information Age (in War, Media and Propaganda) (2004) amazon.com/War-Media-Prop…
Deepa Kumar - Key text: Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management During the 2003 Iraq War (2006) tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Sarah Oates - Key text: Russian State Narrative in the Digital Age: Rewired Propaganda in Russian Television News Framing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (2014) @media_politicsbrill.com/view/journals/…
Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Key text: Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know (2018) amazon.com/Cyberwar-Russi…
I am not a historian and I have a regional focus... so if you want to add I encourage you to add more global and cultural perspectives on #propagandastudies and historical texts - thank you!
Ok, these will be going out of chronology now, but I'm back and adding some more.
Shoshana Zuboff - Key text: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019) shoshanazuboff.com/book/about/
Susan Carruthers - Key text: Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60 (1995) susanlcarruthers.com/winning-hearts…
Clare Wardle - Key text: INFORMATION DISORDER: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making (with Hossein Derakhshan) (2017) rm.coe.int/information-di…
Kate Starbird - Key text: Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter (2017) faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Na…
Stephanie Seul - Key text: ’Plain, unvarnished news’? The BBC German Service and Chamberlain’s propaganda campaign directed at Nazi Germany, 1938-1940 (2015) @stephanie_seulstephanieseul.com/british-propag…
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In Saudi Arabia there is no way women or boys would even be in the same classroom as men or boys. Education is completely gendered and segregated. At least if you are going to do full features on this don’t ignore the apartheid women in Saudi are living in daily.
Girls burned to death in 2002 because they were not allowed out of the school without a headscarf by religious police washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
I don’t know why experts are surprised top authorities and scientists stopped engaging certain groups. Social media is designed to break us into groups… less mass communication, more node communication. The credible expert looked to will become the one revered within that node.
There are still authorities but there are fewer that are ‘national’ and cross-cutting culture. We are fragmenting culture - for better or worse - so you need to think differently about how groups function and what can be the authoritative source.
Communities matter and aren’t a bad thing during a pandemic. But social media have been enabling the creation of ghettos reinforcing exclusion online. And we need to better understand how to still work collectively toward a common culture with trusted systems.
In case you think this thread of women experts in Propaganda Studies isn't needed - take a look at this Top ten reading list in @TheIET
Engineering & Technology for 'disinformation books' - only ONE woman. eandt.theiet.org/content/articl…
And what about @guardian ? Can the Guardian do any better than @theIET at its knowledge of women propaganda experts.... oops! Nope... Top 10 books about fake news from 2019 - ONE WOMAN theguardian.com/books/2019/sep…
No wonder there are so many men at the top! Follow @womenindisinfo which I run to read more fantastic expert opinion, scholarship and research by women on disinformation, propaganda and information warfare.
Most of the debate around AI ethics and #surveillance tends to focus on domestic governance or commercial data of citizens. Little discussion over use in the context of war where bias and error can have massive consequences for both security and innocent human lives.
This is actually quite surprising deficit in contemporary discourse, given surveillance obviously has a LONG tradition of use in national security. There is an assumption by many that such tools are fair game in war but not domestically, this & difficulty of access for research
& concern over domestic applications of AI mean I think that there’s surprisingly little focus on this in recent academic debates except where adversaries of Western democracies are concerned.
The public debate about #disinformation, influence operations and responses… is lacking scrutiny & real debate over rapidly developing defence policies and military responses, esp on ethics. If only public expert discussions got as focused in the weeds on this as on #BigTech.
What discussions do happen seem to be driven my ex-military personnel and very focused on the ‘how to’ of understanding enemies and developing messages and targeting etc… as usual.
It upsets me so much to think that people watched these updates & failed to call a doctor, failed to call an ambulance. Now media share them to the already convinced -do anti-vaxxers even see these? Are they persuaded by the subtle victim shaming, in the face of national tragedy?
It’s exploitative, most of them aren’t framed in a way that they would actually connect with a persuadable leaning anti-vaxxer. I’m sick of seeing them. It feels wrong.
If you’re going to share something like this as a journalist or someone with an influential account the least you should be doing is trying to frame it in such a way that it’s a compassionate appeal to convince that audience. Few are.