“Peace propaganda”? the application of Chomsky’s propaganda model to the <i>Daily Nation’s</i> coverage of the 2013 Kenyan elections

Maweu, Jacinta Mwende

doi:10.1080/02500167.2017.1319873

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“…Although the model was explicitly for the US corporate media, its applicability to other areas and fields is increasingly being recognized. Alford (2009) expanded it into Hollywood cinema while other studies have argued for its applicability to European (Bergman, 2014) Indian (Khan, 2013) and African (Maweu, 2017) media. Nevertheless, all of the above agree that the model is still vitally relevant in assessing media output.…”

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Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014

MacLeod¹

2018

Critical Sociology

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This article assesses Western news media coverage of Venezuela between 1998 and 2014. It found that the major newspapers in the UK and US reproduce the ideology of Western governments, ignoring strong empirical evidence challenging those positions. The press portrayed Venezuela in an overwhelmingly negative light, presenting highly contested minority opinions as facts while barely mentioning competing arguments, as Herman and Chomsky’s (2002) propaganda model would predict. After conducting interviews, it is clear that a small cadre of pre-selected journalists is immersed into a highly antagonistic newsroom culture that sees itself as the “resistance” to the Venezuelan government and its purpose to defeat it. As a result, hegemony of thought reigns and some journalists report self-censorship.

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Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014

MacLeod¹

2018

Critical Sociology

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“…These story structures are echoes of Kaika's (2003) seminal case-study on Athens' 1989Athens' -1991 shows how narratives can be used strategically during water crises to destabilise trust in public authorities. Research on the use of such 'weaponised narratives ' (Hendricks and Verstergaard, 2019) is extremely limited in the field of water crisis narratives, but, in the African context, is better researched on the subject of election campaigns, which highlight the potential for media sensationalism to destabilise society (Maweu, 2017). Furthermore, narratives may be deliberately 'weaponised ' (Hendricks and Verstergaard, 2019) for the purpose of undermining trust in certain public authorities, as we see occurring in the behaviour of Robins' 'Water Master' and the group he affiliates with.…”

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“…In the same way that a photographer frames their shot by choosing which details to include or exclude, so a narrator uses a narrative to 'frame' an event in order to communicate a particular perspective to an audience (Fløttum and Gjerstad, 2013;Fløttum and Gjerstad, 2016). A useful conceptualisation of the political contestation of narrative framings is found in the 2017 Kenyan elections (Maweu, 2017). In this case, 'weaponised narratives' (Hendricks and Verstergaard, 2019) were created 'to subvert and undermine […] institutions, identity, and civilization […] by sowing and exacerbating complexity, confusion, and political and social schisms' (Allenby, 2017 p. 66).…”

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Scholarship on urban Africa’s water crisis narratives: the state of the art

Olivier

Vogel

Erasmus

2021

WSA

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Water crises present a global water governance challenge. To date, scholarship has tended to focus on technological and policy-based solutions, while ignoring the influence of narratives on public buy-in during such crises. Africa is expected to become hotter and drier in future, while its cities experience high levels of informal population growth and inequality. These factors combine to make African cities particularly vulnerable to times of water stress. The aim in this paper is to investigate the state of the ‘art’ on narratives framing domestic water use in African cities during periods of acute water stress and ‘crises’, using a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed academic journal articles. The findings revealed a small population of recently published papers that engage critically with state-generated narratives framing the crisis, limited to case studies on Cape Town and Windhoek. We recommend, however, a greater critical engagement with the anti-establishment narratives that can flourish during periods of acute water stress, and tend to be inflammatory and divisive in nature.

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“…In the context of the general elections in Kenya, the phenomenon that occurs shows that media owners and journalists who take part in the "peaceful journalism" training actually over-run selfcensorship to avoid post-election violence. The main symptom that can be raised is that training that emphasizes peace values is instead translated as "peaceful propaganda".Thus, the reporting filter pertaining to official sources of news and flak contained in the propaganda model is proven in this case(Maweu 2017). Despite having received sharp criticisms, the propaganda model is still able to provide important theoretical and methodological perspectives in media studies.…”

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Propaganda Model in the Age of Social Media

Lukmantoro

Nugroho

Budiawan

2019

KSS

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In 1988, appeared Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media written by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. The propaganda model put forward in the book is so influential then gets many responses. The propaganda model is based on years of study that describes how the mass media in the US organize backing for particular interests that dictate state and private actions. In support of these interests, the propaganda model shows it in five filters, namely: (1) scope, converged ownership, owner prosperity, and revenue direction of leading corporation of the mass media; (2) advertising as the foremost foundation of profit of the mass media; (3) media reliance on data delivered by administration, companies and ”experts” supported and favored by main informants and representatives of power; (4) ”flak” as a method to punish the media; and (5) ”anticommunism” as a domestic belief and regulator instrument. At the present time, the propaganda model, which puts mainstream mass media as the main institution of information dissemination, is questionable to its ability. Technologically the internet presence allows for rapid development of social media that provides excellent opportunities for netizens to engage in interactivity and participatory culture. It can be seen in the phenomenon of sending and exchanging messages with a variety of content that can not be controlled by the state or mainstream media companies.

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“Peace propaganda”? the application of Chomsky’s propaganda model to the Daily Nation’s coverage of the 2013 Kenyan elections

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014

Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014

Scholarship on urban Africa’s water crisis narratives: the state of the art

Propaganda Model in the Age of Social Media

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