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

Communication of Falsehoods

Channels

1. The Manipulation Check
2. conspirituality Videos

Propaganda

1. Propaganda Techniques
2. Psychological Manipulation
3. Psychological Warfare
4. Deception
5. Manufacturing consent
6. Moral_panic
7. Demonizing_the_enemy
8. Goebbels Propaganda Model
9. Propaganda_model
10. Truthiness
11. Big_lie
12. Astroturfing
13. Distinction Without a Difference
14. Manipulation
15. DARVO
16. State Propaganda in the Russian Federation
    • GEC Special Report: Russia’s Pillars of Disinformation and Propaganda
    • Pro-Kremlin disinformation: Research papers
17. Gaslighting
18. Black Propaganda
19. Necessary Illusions
20. BITE Model
21. Astroturfing
22. Ur Fascism

Media Studies and Public Relations

• Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
• American Civil Liberties Union
• News Literacy Guide
• Media Manipulation
• Media Ecology
• Misinformation Review: Harvard Kennedy School
• Network Contagion Institute

1. Media Studies
   • Mass Media Theories
   • Media Analysis
   • Concentration of Media Ownership
2. Elaboration_likelihood_model
3. Marshall McLuhan
4. Edward Bernays
5. The_medium_is_the_message
6. Conflict_of_interest
7. Perverse_incentive
8. Criticism of Journalism
9. Journalistic_objectivity
10. Spin
11. Attitude Change
12. Reputation Management
13. Mass Media Monitoring
14. Distinction without a Difference
15. Echo Chamber

Marketing Tactics

1. Somatic Marketing
2. Choice Architecture
3. Nudge Theory
4. Reinforcement Theory
5. In Group and Out Group
6. Processing fluency
7. Frequency illusion
8. Motivated Skepticism
9. Neuromarketing
10. Processing Fluency
11. Attribute Substitution
12. Social Heuristics
13. Availability Cascade

Government and Legal

• Influence Watch
• USA Spending Data Source
• Foreign Aid Spending

1. List of American Thinktanks
2. List of Think Tanks in the USA
3. American Constitution Society
4. The Federalist Society
5. Citizens United v. FEC
6. The House of Unamerican Activities Committee
7. Lobbying
   • Organizations in the US
8. Freedom of Mind Resource Center - Steven Hassan

Philosophical Concepts

• Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories
• Academic Papers on Debunking Arguments
• genealogical-debunking
• Rhetoric
• Rhetorical Techniques

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

Videos

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
36. Debunking Arguments: Majesty of Reason
37. #474 Andrew Norman - Mental Immunity; Reason, Critical Thinking, Beliefs, and Morality
38. #223 Pascal Boyer: Minds Make Societies, Religion, and Conspiracy Theories
39. #738 Antoine Marie: Moral Convictions, Politics, Misinformation, and Conspiracy Theories
40. #772 Joseph Uscinski: The Politics and Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
41. #193 Paul Slovic: Risk Perception, GMOs, Vaccines, And Climate Change
42. #1048 Mona Simion: Why Do People Resist Evidence?
43. #618 Lee McIntyre - How to Talk to a Science Denier
44. #586 Marianna Ganapini: Beliefs, Confabulations, Rationalizations, and AI Systems
45. #816 Gareth Leng - The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science
46. #874 Cecilie Traberg: Misinformation, Debunking, Prebunking, and Inoculation Approaches
47. #923 Nicholas Brown: How to Spot Bad Science
48. #918 Antoine Marie: The Biases of People with Strong Political and Moral Convictions
49. Ep. 3 Applying Asch's conformity studies to the pandemic: Are you in an epistemological nightmare?
50. #588 Jennifer Lackey: The Epistemology of Groups; Groups Assertions, Groups Lies, and Responsibility
51. #71 Massimo Pigliucci: The Philosophy of Pseudoscience
52. #223 Pascal Boyer: Minds Make Societies, Religion, and Conspiracy Theories

Psychology and Sociology of 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