Mind over Media

Propaganda Education for a Digital Age

By: Renee Hobbs, Douglas Rushkoff - foreword

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Propaganda is inescapable. It's everywhere. Students need to analyze, resist, critique - and create.

Media literacy educators have always insisted that we are both creators and receivers of media messages. The truth of this is even more apparent in today's digital environment, with children and adults alike participating in a ubiquitous, nonstop stream of social media. Clearly, students need the tools to interpret news and information critically - not just for school but for life in a "post-truth" world, where the lines blur between entertainment, information, and persuasion.

Renee Hobbs demonstrates how a global perspective on contemporary propaganda enables educators to stimulate both the intellectual curiosity and the cultural sensitivities of students. Replete with classroom and online learning activities and samples of student work, Mind over Media provides a state-of-the-art look at the theory and practice of propaganda in contemporary society and shows how to build learners' critical thinking and communication skills on topics including computational propaganda, content marketing, fake news, and disinformation.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Renee Hobbs (P)2020 Tantor

Important Topic Especially After the Pandemic

With the propaganda barrage we experienced during the pandemic I've become very interested in this topic. It was so interesting to get front row seats to how the propaganda machinery, levers, and mechanisms worked during the past few years. Book seems concerned in the beginning to not paint propaganda as purely negative. Found that kind of odd since propaganda in the 21st century is pretty much always viewed as negative or sinister. I guess if you view everything as propaganda (Even benign marketing and advertising) like the lawyer that sees the source code to reality as a set of laws, the sales person that only see human interaction as sales pitch, or the roofer that separates the world in two categories, hammers and nails, it makes sense. Overall I felt the book attempts to be balanced, but becomes increasingly left of center as book progresses. Book uses more evidence from right than left which I found annoying since it's a book that's presents itself as balanced for the classroom/teachers. It's a good start to my propaganda educational journey.

I recommend

Good narration, interesting book. I recommend especially to teachers. I bought the book too I liked it so much.

The author is bias and suffers from TDS

I think there is some good information somewhere here but one has to slog through a whole lot of ambling commentary and bias that I gave up. I will try to find a more concise book on propaganda.