critical-thinking/course_outline/course12-Media Studies and Propaganda/README.md

# [Communication of Falsehoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Communication_of_falsehoods)

## Channels

1. [The Manipulation Check](https://www.youtube.com/@themanipulationcheck9770)
2. [conspirituality](https://www.conspirituality.net/) [Videos](https://www.youtube.com/@Conspiritualitypodcast)

## [Propaganda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Propaganda)

1. [Propaganda Techniques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Propaganda_techniques)
2. [Psychological Manipulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychological_manipulation)
3. [Psychological Warfare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Psychological_warfare)
4. [Deception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deception)
5. [Manufacturing consent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent)
6. [Moral_panic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic)
7. [Demonizing_the_enemy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonizing_the_enemy)
8. [Goebbels Propaganda Model](https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/goebbels.html)
9. [Propaganda_model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model)
10. [Truthiness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness)
11. [Big_lie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie)
12. [Astroturfing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing)
13. [Distinction Without a Difference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference)
14. [Manipulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipulation)
15. [DARVO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO)
16. [State Propaganda in the Russian Federation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_propaganda_in_the_Russian_Federation)
    * [GEC Special Report: Russia’s Pillars of Disinformation and Propaganda](https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-propaganda-report/)
    * [Pro-Kremlin disinformation: Research papers](https://consilium-europa.libguides.com/Kremlin-Disinformation/Research-papers)
17. [Gaslighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting)
18. [Black Propaganda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Black_propaganda)
19. [Necessary Illusions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_Illusions)
20. [BITE Model](https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model-pdf-download/)

## Media Studies and [Public Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_relations)

- [News Literacy Guide](https://libguides.uww.edu/News-Literacy/conspiracy-theories)
- [Media Manipulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_manipulation)
- [Media Ecology](https://media-ecology.org/)
- [Misinformation Review: Harvard Kennedy School](https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/)
- [Network Contagion Institute](https://networkcontagion.us/)

1. [Media Studies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_studies)
    * [Mass Media Theories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_media_theories)
    * [Media Analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_analysis)
    * [Concentration of Media Ownership](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Concentration_of_media_ownership)
2. [Elaboration_likelihood_model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaboration_likelihood_model)
3. [Marshall McLuhan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan)
4. [Edward Bernays](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays)
5. [The_medium_is_the_message](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message)
6. [Conflict_of_interest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conflict_of_interest)
7. [Perverse_incentive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive)
8. [Criticism of Journalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Criticism_of_journalism)
9. [Journalistic_objectivity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity)
10. [Spin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(propaganda))
11. [Attitude Change](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Attitude_change)
12. [Reputation Management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management)
13. [Mass Media Monitoring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_media_monitoring)
14. [Distinction without a Difference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference)
15. [Echo Chamber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media))

## Marketing Tactics

1. [Somatic Marketing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_marker_hypothesis)
2. [Choice Architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_architecture)
3. [Nudge Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory)
4. [Reinforcement Theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_theory)
5. [In Group and Out Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group)
6. [Processing fluency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_fluency)
7. [Frequency illusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion)
8. [Motivated Skepticism](https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/wpaper/hal-03770685.html)
9. [Neuromarketing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromarketing)
10. [Processing Fluency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_fluency)
11. [Attribute Substitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution)
12. [Social Heuristics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_heuristics)
13. [Availability Cascade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade)

## Government and Legal 

- [USA Spending Data Source](https://www.usaspending.gov/)
- [Foreign Aid Spending](https://www.foreignassistance.gov/)

1. [List of American Thinktanks](https://economics.virginia.edu/think-tanks)
2. [List of Think Tanks in the USA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks_in_the_United_States)
3. [American Constitution Society](https://www.acslaw.org/)
4. [The Federalist Society](https://fedsoc.org/)
5. [Citizens United v. FEC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC)
6. [The House of Unamerican Activities Committee](https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/house-un-american-activities-committee)
7. [Lobbying](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lobbying)
    * [Organizations in the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lobbying_organizations_in_the_United_States)
8. [Freedom of Mind Resource Center](https://freedomofmind.com/) - [Steven Hassan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hassan)

## Philosophical Concepts

- [genealogical-debunking](https://philpapers.org/browse/genealogical-debunking)
- [Rhetoric](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rhetoric)
- [Rhetorical Techniques](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rhetorical_techniques)

1. [Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part I – Disrupting Ideology)](https://youtu.be/xLlrItiK4yA?si=Gofy-FAtOPJjzzfb)
2. [Episode 124, ‘Narrative Critique’ with Rachel Fraser (Part II – Further Analysis and...](https://youtu.be/jRT0JdG8Oc8?si=NyKKKGuiNby-y5-x)
3. [Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part I)](https://youtu.be/jmiDJvD5INs?si=vqFT8X3azGJ9QPTm)
4. [Episode 126, ‘Playfulness Versus Epistemic Traps’ with C. Thi Nguyen (Part II)](https://youtu.be/4wCmxG3xDPM?si=EirJFcgTBgB4n2g5)
5. [C. Thi Nguyen: Metrification](https://youtu.be/CEekJqgSo2g?si=LWNcrQkYxOE8h_UZ)
6. [Mindscape 169 | C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency](https://youtu.be/H0EhjQDHaAw?si=9JLg23sAC-NUql1c)
7. [C. Thi Nguyen: Transparency is Surveillance](https://youtu.be/8JEzXL5OXPI?si=hHWs7IK6jIh45kC8)
8. [C. Thi Nguyen: The Gamification of Public Discourse (Royal Institute of Philosophy)](https://youtu.be/1LpbGW3qLVg?si=0KK0OTcwcJ0aVUqF)
9. [C. Thi Nguyen | Transparency is surveillance](https://youtu.be/ZcEJY61FKIc?si=fC0l1Kn60NdzjAYf)
10. ["Trust and Hostile Epistemology": C. Thi Nguyen in conversation with Johnny Brennan](https://youtu.be/-LFd9YCpGvA?si=lWnNx10scMtOBCdE)
11. [Keynote: Quantification and the Limits of Scale, C. Thi Nguyen](https://youtu.be/e94yY3AKh9Q?si=qds1Bsuf_UhtsUrp)
12. [The Seductions of Clarity: Conspiracy Theories, Echo Chambers, and the Gamification of Social Media](https://youtu.be/Nkf8uGEN3zA?si=taRtpQpedQue1Yql)

## Conspiracy and Propaganda

- [Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories](https://philpapers.org/browse/conspiracy-theories)
- [Academic Papers on Debunking Arguments](https://danielzkorman.weebly.com/papers-and-books.html)

1. [In Defense of Conspiracy Theories pt 1](https://youtu.be/p0poRoE_kVk?si=QbhsIPmPAsfMv0r3)
2. [In Defense of Conspiracy Theories pt 2](https://youtu.be/TRKYf49aMfU?si=C6bHVzE8CZbCxVTb)
3. [How to Argue with conspiracy Theorists (And Win)](https://youtu.be/KLfL1Gm9QDM?si=falx1nMUUpYpvh-Y)
4. [The Art of Rhetoric: 10 Principles of Persuasive Speech](https://youtu.be/qAert4eHBRM?si=JKN1N5JwqmnLndKH)
5. [Why Trust Experts?](https://youtu.be/TPq6zKf7RQQ?si=QLut7-FDf79XqO0c)
6. [The Conspiracy Hypothesis](https://youtu.be/378KsaqmHOA?si=utPp9UATsR8ruj7j)
7. [Dietary Nihilism](https://youtu.be/hTcbmxrrTn0?si=yxuXl2j5M3XSonq4)
8. [Karl Popper's "The Conspiracy Theory of Society"](https://youtu.be/KumNAOH33VM?si=5EJFHZyUE7TfoPNB)
9. [Episode 12, Dr M R. X. Dentith on Conspiracy Theories (audio fixed)](https://youtu.be/VgUdy01KZbY?si=yjAQXxMK0l00AguH)
10. [You Are Lied to Every Day](https://youtu.be/ewXqB7g7t1A?si=NWMqbZ86-iIDE3LR)
11. [Noam Chomsky on Democracy and the Media (1994)](https://youtu.be/xI2qSQWvPnM?si=tVjRRiFfHI_EBHWO)
12. [Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting- Noam Chomsky Manufacturing Consent](https://youtu.be/em-eljd5y64?si=zFb6azWle-cIQyJI)
13. [Noam Chomsky Interview Used in Documentary "Manufacturing Consent", February 1, 1990](https://youtu.be/Qv-zIE_HxLA?si=_k5EQlNMyj_cZxrJ)
14. [Manufacturing Consent, Chapter 1: A Propaganda Model](https://youtu.be/hgnX8by4DPQ?si=lNHefQJmuDKZR7cj)
15. [Edward Bernays: Social Engineering, Advertising and Marketing](https://youtu.be/XzutxRi9xVI?si=bg_Kq_Pw0Gxu6LQa)
16. [The Fall of Russell Brand](https://youtu.be/yr5e38RznKY?si=Dp2Na-NHKs8IzLY8)
17. [how dogma pollutes discourse | qualiasoup & theramintrees [cc]](https://youtu.be/o6-Htscvf4k?si=PtDyg59rLgP54pMg)
18. [Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr](https://youtu.be/GjENnyQupow?si=2cR6OlKdmfsfOle-)
19. [Global Debunking Arguments](https://youtu.be/FFaOUX9PjPg?si=yBckRhsAtOneNcvS)
20. [CARTA: Folklore, Conspiracy Theories, and Threat](https://youtu.be/UmUukTBAM98?si=1JQ1-gVmQcgcv5sm)
21. [Free Thought and Official Propaganda | Bertrand Russell | Human Narration](https://youtu.be/ZGQ7Fm-HggQ?si=xpu12Bd6TB7jQMDW)
22. [Debunking and Argumentation: Looking at Kenneth Burke's Debunking Essay](https://youtu.be/bD4ZcTrkjX8?si=Z-LhHiyEdtE8IIVg)
23. [Jesse Walker "The United States of Paranoia"](https://youtu.be/9ffxKN1hppc?si=gROzIqqcq5xrvxX2)
24. [Episode 127: The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (with Jesse Walker)](https://youtu.be/2harUfkThMo?si=t-STvLG0MlevseOu)
25. [The Paranoid Style in American Politics - Richard Hofstadter - 1964](https://youtu.be/zkVBgOc4Vbo?si=Dk61mhReDlZ2ejw7)
26. [The Right-Wing War on Education](https://youtu.be/bo0M3H1QsEQ?si=l6Q2QJOQ2nZc9VxO)
27. [Episode 95, Conspiracy Theories (Part I - Origins)](https://youtu.be/4SuPmxa9tOw?si=BvKoKryqkfeqewBh)
28. [Episode 95, Conspiracy Theories (Part II - Solutions)](https://youtu.be/v5a27JF93Fs?si=v10ZH6_6zW7O9X0l)
29. [Episode 95, Conspiracy Theories (Part III - Further Analysis and Discussion)](https://youtu.be/iF-9pm__KTQ?si=RvVBs1Tk5uyuMg9Q)
30. [The Brainwashing of my Dad (with documentary filmmaker Jen Senko)](https://youtu.be/MW7Go6_sShI?si=B5MkhWrGUvOtd48k)
31. [Steven Hassan on the Cult of Trump](https://youtu.be/f26NjZizg1A?si=gDMHwhINy6afM4Rs)
32. [The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained](https://youtu.be/v-8t0EfLzQo?si=Tt29-SE8E_kyf7TW)
33. [Think Tanks: How Fake Experts Shape the News](https://youtu.be/3n3Hq7XSBjA?si=2FfZBO0i_rnvlNX3)
34. [Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now](https://youtu.be/2bq3SdfzcA4?si=D12LtqZBjE46WJjz)
35. [The Psychology of Conspiracy Theorists](https://youtu.be/ByOHRqCP_kY?si=Vy4N5KvSe8XcQIxD)
36. [Debunking Arguments: Majesty of Reason](https://youtu.be/fz6cHG1lczU?si=0rZyvL0KavslBIEK)

## Psychology and Sociology of Conspiracy Theory

1. [Conspiracy Beliefs between Secret Evidence and Delusion](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/10/conspiracy-beliefs-between-secret.html?m=1)
2. [On the Origin of Conspiracy Theories](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/01/on-origin-of-conspiracy-theories.html?m=1)
3. [Conspiracy Beliefs, Delusions, and Testimony](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2023/07/conspiracy-beliefs-delusions-and.html?m=1)
4. [Conspiracy Beliefs, Democracy, and Confabulation](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2023/07/conspiracy-beliefs-democracy-and.html?m=1)
5. [Conspiracy Theories](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2019/11/conspiracy-theories.html?m=1)
6. [Belief, Imagination, and Delusion](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2019/01/belief-imagination-and-delusion.html?m=1)
7. [Delusion-Like Beliefs: Epistemic and Forensic Innocence?](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2020/08/delusion-like-beliefs-epistemic-and.html?m=1)
8. [The relationship between conspiratorial beliefs and cognitive styles](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/03/disentangling-relationship-between.html?m=1)
9. [Extreme Beliefs: An Interview with Rik Peels](https://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2021/11/extreme-beliefs-interview-with-rik-peels.html?m=1)
10. [Developing a Model of Groupstrapping: A Response to Baumgaertner and Nguyen, Kenneth Boyd](https://social-epistemology.com/2019/08/14/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](https://social-epistemology.com/2019/06/10/groupstrapping-bootstrapping-and-oops-strapping-a-reply-to-boyd-bert-baumgaertner/)