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This is absolutely reasonable for a university level class. It would go over: 1. Rhetoric 2. Historical methods of propaganda 3. How propaganda spreads 4.
by monksy 8y ago
This is absolutely reasonable for a university level class.
It would go over:
1. Rhetoric
2. Historical methods of propaganda
3. How propaganda spreads
4. "Virality in communication networks" (https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Products/dp/1591847788 https://www.amazon.com/Hooked-How-Build-Habit-Forming-Produc...)
5. Gossip
6. Tactics of Manipulation (48 laws of power is a good recording of this)
7. Strategizing on cognitive basis.
- pmarreck 8y agoOr you could just teach them the most popular informal logical fallacies, which would cover most of this already https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ Unfortunately there are a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies Fortunately, when given concrete examples, I believe most people can grasp most of them, and it would inoculate ALL of us to quite a bit of the BS flying about. I’ve been studying these on my own for a while and once you learn some of them well enough, you cannot unsee them- they are used EVERYWHERE