LEADER 04503nam 2200721 450 001 9910463862303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61376-030-2 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065186 035 $a(MH)012743177-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606213 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390723 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606213 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581330 035 $a(PQKB)11738351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4532931 035 $a(OCoLC)794700507 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3892 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4532931 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11214430 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065186 100 $a20160610h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe battle for the mind $ewar and peace in the era of mass communication /$fGary S. Messinger 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 293 p. ) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-55849-852-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface: 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aMass media and war$xHistory 606 $aCommunication$xSocial aspects$xHistory 606 $aCommunication$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 606 $aMass media and propaganda$xHistory 606 $aWar and society$xHistory 606 $aPeace-building$xHistory 606 $aInternational relations$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military 607 $aEurope$xHistory, Military 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMass media and war$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunication$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunication$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aMass media and propaganda$xHistory. 615 0$aWar and society$xHistory. 615 0$aPeace-building$xHistory. 615 0$aInternational relations$xHistory. 676 $a303.6/6 700 $aMessinger$b Gary S.$f1943-$01049706 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463862303321 996 $aThe battle for the mind$92478967 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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