critical-thinking/course_outline/course12-Media Studies and Propaganda

Communication of Falsehoods and Deception

• List of American Thinktanks
• conspirituality Videos
• Misinformation Review: Harvard Kennedy School
• Media Manipulation
• Psychological Manipulation
• Propaganda
• Propaganda Techniques
• Rhetoric
• Rhetorical Techniques
• Psychological Warfare
• genealogical-debunking

1. Elaboration_likelihood_model
2. Attitude Change
3. DARVO
4. Conflict_of_interest
5. Perverse_incentive
6. Criticism of Journalism
7. Journalistic_objectivity
8. Manufacturing consent
9. Moral_panic
10. Demonizing_the_enemy
11. Goebbels Propaganda Model
12. Spin
13. List of Think Tanks in the USA
14. American Constitution Society
15. The Federalist Society
16. Somatic Marketing
17. Propaganda_model
18. American Think Tanks
19. List of Think Tanks
20. The_medium_is_the_message
21. Truthiness
22. Big_lie
23. Astroturfing
24. Distinction Without a Difference
25. Manipulation
26. The House of Unamerican Activities Committee
27. Black Propaganda
28. Reputation Management
29. Intelligence Operations
30. Mass Media Monitoring
31. Gaslighting
32. Necessary Illusions
33. Choice Architecture
34. Nudge Theory
35. State Propaganda in the Russian Federation
    • GEC Special Report: Russia’s Pillars of Disinformation and Propaganda
    • Pro-Kremlin disinformation: Research papers
36. Distinction without a Difference
37. Reinforcement Theory
38. In Group and Out Group
39. Echo Chamber
40. Processing fluency
41. Frequency illusion
42. Motivated Skepticism
43. Public Relations
44. Lobbying
    • Organizations in the US
45. Neuromarketing
46. Marshall McLuhan
47. Edward Bernays
48. Media Studies
    • Mass Media Theories
    • Media Analysis
    • Concentration of Media Ownership
49. Processing Fluency
50. Attribute Substitution
51. Social Heuristics
52. BITE Model
53. Media Ecology
54. Network Contagion Institute
55. Availability Cascade
56. Freedom of Mind Resource Center - Steven Hassan

Data Sources

• https://www.usaspending.gov/
• https://www.foreignassistance.gov/
• https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership
• https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/
• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/who-owns-your-favorite-news-media-outlet/

Philosophical Concepts

1. Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part I – Disrupting Ideology)
2. Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part II – Further Analysis and...
3. Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part I)
4. Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part II)
5. C. Thi Nguyen: Metrification
6. Mindscape 169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency
7. C. Thi Nguyen: Transparency is Surveillance
8. C. Thi Nguyen: The Gamification of Public Discourse (Royal Institute of Philosophy)
9. C. Thi Nguyen | Transparency is surveillance
10. "Trust and Hostile Epistemology": C. Thi Nguyen in conversation with Johnny Brennan
11. Keynote: Quantification and the Limits of Scale, C. Thi Nguyen
12. The Seductions of Clarity: Conspiracy Theories, Echo Chambers, and the Gamification of Social Media

Conspiracy, Propaganda, and Media Studies

1. In Defense of Conspiracy Theories pt 1
2. In Defense of Conspiracy Theories pt 2
3. How to Argue with conspiracy Theorists (And Win)
4. The Art of Rhetoric: 10 Principles of Persuasive Speech
5. Why Trust Experts?
6. The Conspiracy Hypothesis
7. Dietary Nihilism
8. Karl Popper's "The Conspiracy Theory of Society"
9. Episode 12, Dr M R. X. Dentith on Conspiracy Theories (audio fixed)
10. You Are Lied to Every Day
11. Noam Chomsky on Democracy and the Media (1994)
12. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting- Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent
13. Noam Chomsky Interview Used in Documentary "Manufacturing Consent", February 1, 1990
14. Manufacturing Consent, Chapter 1: A Propaganda Model
15. Edward Bernays: Social Engineering, Advertising and Marketing
16. The Fall of Russell Brand
17. how dogma pollutes discourse | qualiasoup & theramintrees [cc]
18. Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr
19. Global Debunking Arguments
20. CARTA: Folklore, Conspiracy Theories, and Threat
21. Free Thought and Official Propaganda | Bertrand Russell | Human Narration
22. Debunking and Argumentation: Looking at Kenneth Burke's Debunking Essay
23. Jesse Walker "The United States of Paranoia"
24. Episode 127: The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (with Jesse Walker)
25. The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Richard Hofstadter - 1964
26. The Right-Wing War on Education
27. Episode 95, Conspiracy Theories (Part I - Origins)
28. Episode 95, Conspiracy Theories (Part II - Solutions)
29. Episode 95, Conspiracy Theories (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion)
30. The Brainwashing of my Dad (with documentary filmmaker Jen Senko)
31. Steven Hassan on the Cult of Trump
32. The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained
33. Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News
34. Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now
35. The Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists

Articles on Conspiracy Theory

1. Conspiracy Beliefs between Secret Evidence and Delusion
2. On the Origin of Conspiracy Theories
3. Conspiracy Beliefs, Delusions, and Testimony
4. Conspiracy Beliefs, Democracy, and Confabulation
5. Conspiracy Theories
6. Belief, Imagination, and Delusion
7. Delusion-Like Beliefs: Epistemic and Forensic Innocence?
8. The relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and cognitive styles
9. Extreme Beliefs: An Interview with Rik Peels
10. Developing a Model of Groupstrapping: A Response to Baumgaertner and Nguyen, Kenneth Boyd
11. Groupstrapping, Bootstrapping, and Oops-strapping: A Reply to Boyd, Bert Baumgaertner