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The Pitfalls of Propaganda – The Theoretical Challenge
Radu Cucută
103 - 111
10.3233/978-1-61499-943-0-103
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics
Volume 142: Challenges in Strategic Communication and Fighting Propaganda in Eastern Europe
Abstract

The paper discusses the need for greater conceptual clarity and theoretical framing of the concept of propaganda. Arguing in favor of a perspective grounded in social constructivism, part of the larger intellectual tradition of understanding, the concept is considered in its instrumental dimension and in its relation with technology and modern media. The interaction with several other concepts, such as ideology, nationalism, soft power is discussed in order to assert the specificity of a working definition, from an agnostic standpoint about the truth of propaganda information.

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