TY - BOOK AU - Gerald Sussman PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1525-9730 TI - The Propaganda Society T2 - Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1143790 N2 - The Propaganda Society analyzes the rapid expansion of propaganda and promotional activities in the leading «post-industrial» states under the regime of neoliberalism. With the outsourcing of manufacturing, these states have converted to service, selling, and speculative economies, with a concurrent rapid growth of advertising, marketing, public relations, sales management, branding, and other promotional enterprises. Aided by digital technologies and the removal – «deregulation» – of political, legal, administrative, and moral barriers to state and corporate expansion on a global scale, a group of dominant political and commercial actors have brought about a common discourse and convergent set of practices rooted in sophisticated and unprecedented levels of propaganda and promotion. Written by leading scholars in the field, each of the eighteen chapters in this book discuss the ways in which elite uses of propaganda have radically transformed media and information systems, political and public culture, the conduct of war and foreign relations, and the overall behavior of the state. KW - ropaganda, public discourse, promotional culture, political economy, marketing, PR, politics, advertising, neoliberalism, propaganda, foreign policy LA - English ER -