04503nam 2200721 450 991046386230332120200520144314.01-61376-030-2(CKB)3240000000065186(MH)012743177-2(SSID)ssj0000606213(PQKBManifestationID)11390723(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606213(PQKBWorkID)10581330(PQKB)11738351(MiAaPQ)EBC4532931(OCoLC)794700507(MdBmJHUP)muse3892(Au-PeEL)EBL4532931(CaPaEBR)ebr11214430(EXLCZ)99324000000006518620160610h20112011 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe battle for the mind war and peace in the era of mass communication /Gary S. MessingerAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :University of Massachusetts Press,2011.©20111 online resource (xi, 293 p. )Includes index.1-55849-852-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface: A change in the landscape -- War encounters mass communication : 1850/1914 -- Mass communication enlists : 1914/1918 -- The democracies try to demobilize : 1919/1939 -- Dictators conquer their media : 1919/1939 -- The battle for the mind deepens : 1939/1945 -- Symbolic war takes precedence : 1945/1991 -- Mass communication becomes multipolar : 1991and after."Most people typically think of armed conflict in physical terms, involving guns and bombs, ships and planes, tanks and missiles. But today, because of mass communication, war and the effort to prevent it are increasingly dependent on non-physical factors--the capacity to persuade combatants and citizens to engage in violence or avoid it, and the packaging of the information on which decision making is based. This book explores the many ways that mass communication has revolutionized international relations, whether the aim is to make war effectively or to prevent it. Gary Messinger shows that over the last 150 years a succession of breakthroughs in the realm of media has reshaped the making of war and peace. Along with mass newspapers, magazines, books, motion pictures, radio, television, computer software, and telecommunication satellites comes an array of strategies for exploiting these media to control popular beliefs and emotions. Images of war now arrive in many forms and reach billions of people simultaneously. Political and military leaders must react to crowd impulses that sweep around the globe. Nation-states and nongovernmental groups, including terrorists, use mass communication to spread their portrayals of reality. Drawing on a wide range of media products, from books and articles to films and television programs, as well as his own research in the field of propaganda studies, Messinger offers a fresh and comprehensive overview. He skillfully charts the path that has led us to our current situation and suggests where we might go next."--p. [4] of cover.Mass media and warHistoryCommunicationSocial aspectsHistoryCommunicationPolitical aspectsHistoryMass media and propagandaHistoryWar and societyHistoryPeace-buildingHistoryInternational relationsHistoryUnited StatesHistory, MilitaryEuropeHistory, MilitaryElectronic books.Mass media and warHistory.CommunicationSocial aspectsHistory.CommunicationPolitical aspectsHistory.Mass media and propagandaHistory.War and societyHistory.Peace-buildingHistory.International relationsHistory.303.6/6Messinger Gary S.1943-1049706MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463862303321The battle for the mind2478967UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress