Propaganda

Propaganda is systematic communication deliberately designed to manipulate collective attitudes and behavior through psychological and symbolic techniques in service of predetermined institutional interests while circumventing informed rational deliberation.

1.6K

Publications

86.3K

Citations

2.4K

Authors

956

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

691

Variants

Propaganda Studies

Parents

Political Communication

Children

Broadcast PropagandaCensorshipDigital PropagandaDisinformationElection PropagandaIdeological PropagandaInformation ControlMass MobilizationMass PersuasionMedia Propaganda

Publications

1.6K

Defining “Fake News”

Edson C. Tandoc, Zheng Wei Lim, Richard Ling · Digital Journalism · 2017 · 2.1K citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Political Communication +16

Beyond misinformation: Understanding and coping with the “post-truth” era.

Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, John Cook · Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · 2017 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Communication, Political Communication +12

The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction

Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook et al. · Nature Reviews Psychology · 2022 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +11

A postmodern Pandora's box: Anti-vaccination misinformation on the Internet

Anna Kata · Vaccine · 2009 · 1.2K citations

Public Affairs, Communication, Health Communication +13

Truth of Varying Shades: Analyzing Language in Fake News and Political Fact-Checking

Hannah Rashkin, Eunsol Choi, Jin Yea Jang et al. · 2017 · 880 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Political Communication, Political Science +15

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Authors

2.4K

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Giovanni Da San Martino
University of Padua, Italy
13 publications · 1.2K citations
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Preslav Nakov
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
14 publications · 1.3K citations
13
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Harold D. Lasswell
Yale University, United States
8 publications · 655 citations
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Nicholas O’Shaughnessy
Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
8 publications · 302 citations
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Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California, United States
8 publications · 871 citations
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Institutions

956

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Venues

Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 80 publications · 4.9K citations
39
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The American Historical Review
AHR · 45 publications · 3.1K citations
26
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SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 30 publications · 1.5K citations
21
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Journal of Contemporary History
18 publications · 558 citations
15
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Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
20 publications · 731 citations
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See also Propaganda
Core Methods	Straw Man Emotional Appeals Black-and-white Fallacy Argument From Authority Appeal To Fear Framings
Psychological Mechanisms	Cognitive Dissonance In Politics Backfire Effects Appeal To Fear Argument From Authority Black-and-white Fallacy
Variants	Political Propaganda
Media Channels	Social Media Platforms Recommender Systems Platformization Of Media
Detection	Distant Supervision Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Detection Social Network Analysis Link Analysis Support Vector Machines Naive Bayes Decision Trees K-nearest Neighbors Language Model Pretraining