This is not propaganda : adventures in the war against reality / Peter Pomerantsev.

By:

Pomerantsev, Peter

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781541762114
1541762118

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HM851 .P6556 2019

Contents:

Preface: Telegram! -- Cities of trolls -- The greatest information blitzkrieg in history -- Soft facts -- Pop-up people -- The future starts here.

Summary: We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy--but our very notion of what those words even mean. The author takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia--but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	HM851 .P6556 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001495323

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Telegram! -- Cities of trolls -- The greatest information blitzkrieg in history -- Soft facts -- Pop-up people -- The future starts here.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy--but our very notion of what those words even mean. The author takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia--but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.

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