scholarly journals Modern Tools of Political Manipulation

Author(s):  
Andrii Konet

The article proves that political manipulation is one of the conditions for the stable existence of political regimes and allows to control people and their consciousness. Tools and means of political manipulation are being continuously developed and improved, because they help political regimes function stably. Political manipulation is usually planned and organized, and can carry potential risks for the development of society as a whole. Political manipulators actively attract the media, which effectively distribute needed information and have the fullest impact on social consciousness. Peculiarities of political manipulation as a specific form of political influence, involve creating additional psychological levers of effective action in the process of the struggle for power. Political manipulators, with the help of various technologies of political manipulation, latently correct mass consciousness; include artificial stimulus (motivations) for action; redirect public moods and social activity in the direction they need. The author studies the current manifestations of political manipulation in the society: influence on public opinion; state authorities discredit; political advertising. To achieve success in the political struggle, the manipulator needs the support of society, which is guaranteed by the actions of mechanisms to influence public opinion. The author identifies and analyzes the following mechanisms of the means of political manipulation: language suggestion (speech influence), neuro-linguistic programming, and negative campaigning.

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
O.A. Vertiyevets

Социальное конструирование в информационно-коммуникативной сфере является важнейшим элементом современного информационно-коммуникативного пространства. Лавинообразное увеличение объемов информации и коммуникативных взаимодействий сформировало информационно-коммуникативные потоки, захлестнувшие человека. Это расширило рамки используемых им социокультурных паттернов. Включенность в потоковые информационно-коммуникативные структуры значительно сократило возможности рефлексивного осмысления и переработки получаемой информации, внедрив в современные информационно-коммуникативные практики пассивно-созерцательные схемы восприятия. В статье раскрываются и анализируются модели социального конструирования в информационно-коммуникативном поле стратегии и технологии мифологизации и симулякризации информации, направленной на управляющее ментальное воздействие в сфере индивидуального сознания отдельных людей, образующих целевые аудитории, и на общественное сознание выделенных сообществ со сходными идентификационными признаками целевых групп.Modern people, immersed in intensive information and communication flows, do not perceive the surrounding world on the basis of personal experience, subordinated to the algorithmized authorized requirements of the normative value system of the society. They perceive it through these flows determination by protocols and algorithms of everyday sociocultural practices and mental schemes frames, focused on maintaining social consensus. The actualization of the mental algorithms and schemes, sanctioned in the community and integrated in the common information and communication field in the context of information redundancy, has led to the predominance of subconscious immediate reactions to what is happening in the environment of the event thus, the choice of social actions becomes an instant reaction based on the choice of a particular model of social action, and this choice is actually prescribed by the collective unconscious. Under these conditions, the more communicative support in the form of repetitions, judgments of various experts and analysts such information receives (public response), the more active people and social institutions act in the given vector of social activity. The preservation and deepening of the asymmetry of distribution and interpretation of information in society results in the homogenization of meanings. The perception of the outside world based on personal experience is replaced by a visually illustrated description of events and life conflicts in the media that generate mediareality, including in social networks in the Internet space. Social roleplaying narratives are common there. The result is a sociocommunicative field with high emotional stress, which produces an emotional echo in the public opinion of the target group emotional ressponse based, on the one hand, on the averaging of public opinion and, on the other hand, on the multiple strengthening of emotional impact and empathy to the interpretation, perceived as normative and acceptable, of a social and communicative construct that is designed to integrate the target audience of the information and communicative impact. Therefore, peoples modern perception of reality in the information and communication field is constructed on the schemes that adapt people to a collective average public opinion and partially design and supplement the image of the world around with the use of factoids taking into account peoples personal experience and conditions of their rootedness in community to which they belongs, according to the Veblen effect.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Eun Ah Ryu ◽  
Eun Kyoung Han

Since the introduction of smartphones in 2009, social networking services (SNS), which have seen a surge in users, facilitated changes in the media environment along with social influence that has increased the economic value and political influence of SNS. In particular, as consumers’ media use and consumption behavior change around digital media, social media plays a very important role in consumers’ lives. From this perspective, influencers who influence not only consumers’ consumption behavior, but also decision-making and opinion formation based on social media are attracting attention. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop items to measure an influencer’s reputation as a new source of information in the SNS environment; no previous researchers have presented generalized measurement items for an influencer’s reputation. We intended to identify what dimensions and items in the existing literature could effectively measure a social media influencer’s reputation and to verify each item’s relevance as a measure of a social media influencer’s reputation. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 experts and empirical findings from 557 adults, this study identified dimensions that impact on a consumer’s perception of a social media influencer and developed a scale. The results showed that the social media Influencer’s Reputation scale comprises four distinctive dimensions: Communication skills, influence, authenticity, and expertise. Additionally, the reliability and validity of the scale were assessed, using exploratory and confirmatory analyses and construct validity. The findings confirmed that the social media influencer’s reputation scale measurement items, in this study, can be used as a consistent measurement tool for each dimension. It is also important to develop value in favor of the marketing strategy by increasing value through the influencer’s reputation.


1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Sidney Kraus

This content analysis of Chinese newspapers before and after the Tiananmen Square protest examines the symbolic representation of the Student Movement of 1989 in China. The study reveals that top leaders manipulated symbols given to the media and that these symbols rigorously highlighted the dominant ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and isolated the movement participants. Officials attempted to legitimize the military suppression of the movement. The press construction of public opinion echoed the hegemonic process created and maintained by the party structure.


2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Peter G. Neumann

Mini-editorial (PGN) 2020 was a crazy year, with all kinds of risks on display. As usual, many of the lessons noted in past issues of SEN and RISKS have been largely ignored, and failures continue to mirror events from the past that have long been discussed here. Issues such as safety, security, and reliability always seem to need more foresight than they receive. Y2K con- tinues to hit somewhere each New Year's Day, when short- term remediations that demanded periodic upgrading have been forgotten. (I suppose old COBOL code will still ex- ist in year 2100, when there may be ambiguities relating to dates that could be 21xx or 20xx (although 19xx is unlikely), and the narrow windowing xes will fail even more dramati- cally.) Election integrity continues to be a real concern, where we are caught in the crosshairs between computer systems and networks that are not meaningfully trustworthy or au- ditable, and the nontechnological risks are still pervasive from unbalanced redistricting, creative dysinformation, poli- tics, Citzens United, and foreign interference. We need non- partisan scrutiny and defense against would-be subverters to overcome potential attacks and inadvertent mistakes. In pres- ence of potential risks in every part of the process, a strong sense of risk-awareness is required by voters, election officials, and the media (both proactively and remedially, as needed).


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert Smekal ◽  
Jaroslav Benák ◽  
Monika Hanych ◽  
Ladislav Vyhnánek ◽  
Štěpán Janků

The book studies other than purely legal factors that influence the Czech Constitutional Court judges in their decision-making. The publication is inspired by foreign models of judicial decision-making and discusses their applicability in the Czech environment. More specifically, it focuses, for example, on the influence of the judge’s personality, collegiality, strategic decision-making or the impact of public opinion and the media. The book is based mainly on interviews with current constitutional judges.


2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-146
Author(s):  
Terrence L. Chapman

Despite increased attention to the linkages between domestic politics and international relations in political science literature over the last 20 years, considerable debate remains about how well equipped citizens are to act as informed constraints on governments or how attentive and responsive government actors are to public opinion. Debates about citizens' ability to act as a check on government behavior are not new, of course, and have a long tradition in political philosophy and in public discourse. Yet the proliferation of theories of domestic–international linkages in contemporary IR scholarship has unfortunately been accompanied by incomplete dialogue between public opinion and IR scholars and often by claims of unidirectional or unconditional causality regarding domestic constraints, elite framing and opinion leadership, citizens' informational capacities, and the role of the media. The relationship among these factors in shaping foreign policy is quite complex, however, and fortunately Thomas Knecht acknowledges this complexity and advances a conditional argument about the relationship between public attitudes and presidential decision making.


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