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Public Relations: Industry, Practices, and Democratic Implications

Posted by Keren Wang, FA 2025 Table of Content Public Relations and Propaganda Inside the PR Industry Common PR Activities PR and Disinformation Democratizing PR? 1) Public Relations and Propaganda Let’s start today’s discussion with one of the most famous political ads in American history: Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 “Daisy” ad. It’s only about a minute long, but it changed the entire landscape of political persuasion. Go ahead and give it a watch: LBJ campaign’s “Daisy” ad (1964). ...

The Internet - from "Nuclear Hardened" Networks to Algorithmic Governmentality

References Beck, Estee. "Who Is Tracking You?: A Rhetorical Framework for Evaluating Surveillance and Privacy Practices." In Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, pp. 121-138. IGI Global, 2019. Belk, Russell. “Extended self and the digital world.” Current Opinion in Psychology 10 (2016): 50-54. Chen, Ning, and Yu Chen. “Smart city surveillance at the network edge in the era of iot: opportunities and challenges.” Smart cities: development and governance frameworks (2018): 153-176. ...

Understanding Advertising through Consumer Psychology and Computational Rhetoric

Table of Contents What Do You See? Historical "Thickness" of Advertising Demonstrative and Associative Ads Advertising & Consumer Psychology Bandwagon & Anti-Bandwagon Effects Social Marketing & Exploitation Computational Rhetoric of Hyper-Personalization What Do You See? Let’s begin today’s lesson with a quick glance at these sets of images. What do they remind you of? ...