Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani
Propaganda is making inroad in societies and its impact is so tremendous. Through the proliferation of the mass media and ICT, propaganda messages can reach the audience within a few seconds. Sometimes, manipulation, misinformation and disinformation do occur through propagandistic messages with...
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| description | Propaganda is making inroad in societies and its impact is so tremendous.
Through the proliferation of the mass media and ICT, propaganda messages
can reach the audience within a few seconds. Sometimes, manipulation,
misinformation and disinformation do occur through propagandistic messages
without readers realizing it. Nonetheless, not all propaganda is bad. Many
scholars claim that “truth” is part of propaganda, for example, propaganda
for peace is used during conflicts and insurgency. But bad propaganda, such
as the maniacal Fuhrer Hitler’s evil intention to conquer all European nations
is quite disastrous to mankind. This paper, introduces a general semantics
approach of balance thinking as to evaluate language of propaganda. General
semanticists always believe that the principle of general semantics is the last
bastion of preconceived mind and bias inherent in propaganda messages. As
Korzybski wrote, “it is probably no secret that a large part of the population
of this world was swayed by propaganda during war”. And the interdisciplinary
method of general semantics which is providing us a mechanism of evaluative
habits of our everyday language and awareness may be useful for verbal
peace movement. |
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| spelling | uitm-109522016-04-14T03:16:40Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10952/ Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani jmiw Ghani, Mohd Rajib General semantics Abstraction Propaganda Propaganda is making inroad in societies and its impact is so tremendous. Through the proliferation of the mass media and ICT, propaganda messages can reach the audience within a few seconds. Sometimes, manipulation, misinformation and disinformation do occur through propagandistic messages without readers realizing it. Nonetheless, not all propaganda is bad. Many scholars claim that “truth” is part of propaganda, for example, propaganda for peace is used during conflicts and insurgency. But bad propaganda, such as the maniacal Fuhrer Hitler’s evil intention to conquer all European nations is quite disastrous to mankind. This paper, introduces a general semantics approach of balance thinking as to evaluate language of propaganda. General semanticists always believe that the principle of general semantics is the last bastion of preconceived mind and bias inherent in propaganda messages. As Korzybski wrote, “it is probably no secret that a large part of the population of this world was swayed by propaganda during war”. And the interdisciplinary method of general semantics which is providing us a mechanism of evaluative habits of our everyday language and awareness may be useful for verbal peace movement. CMIWS and UiTM Press 2010 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10952/1/AJ_MOHD%20RAJIB%20GHANI%20JMIW%2010.pdf Ghani, Mohd Rajib (2010) Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani. (2010) Journal of Media and Information Warfare (JMIW) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Media_and_Information_Warfare_=28JMIW=29.html>, 3. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1985-563X https://jmiw.uitm.edu.my/ |
| spellingShingle | General semantics Abstraction Propaganda Ghani, Mohd Rajib Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani |
| title | Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani |
| title_full | Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani |
| title_fullStr | Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani |
| title_short | Understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / Mohd Rajib Ghani |
| title_sort | understanding propaganda from the perspectives of general semantics / mohd rajib ghani |
| topic | General semantics Abstraction Propaganda |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10952/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10952/ |