Propaganda, Persuasion and Symmetry: Local and Central Government Perspectives on Communicating with the Citizen

Harrison, Shirley

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“…A purported distinction between``propaganda'' and``scientific persuasion'' was made by Grunig and Hunt (1984) in a formulation of models of public relations (see also Harrison, 1999). In a discussion of these models Harrison identifies propaganda with the activities of the showman P.T.…”

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Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability

Collison

2003

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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Tel +44(0)1382 344857 Fax +44(0)1382 348421 Acknowledgements I would like to particularly thank (chronologically) Rob Gray, Lee Parker and George Frankfurter for their advice and encouragement in the development of this paper. I would also like to thank David Power, Lorna Stevenson, and other departmental colleagues for very helpful comments, and also participants at seminars at the University of Glasgow and at Glasgow Caledonian University, and at the APIRA 2001 conference at Adelaide. I am extremely grateful to Sara Reiter, who was discussant of the paper at APIRA, for many very insightful comments and suggestions. Finally I am grateful for the very helpful critiques received from the anonymous referees. AbstractThis paper examines the nature of propaganda and its use by corporations, particularly in the US, over a period of nearly 100 years. It emphasises the invisibility of much of this activity and propaganda's importance for shaping acquiescence in corporate hegemony. The role played by corporate propaganda in the development of different forms of capitalism is addressed. The inculcation of accounting and finance students with values that serve corporate interests is considered: in this context propaganda is inferred in both the longstanding misrepresentation of Adam Smith, and the sustained illusion of competitive "free markets". The role and language of the business media as a form of propaganda is considered, particularly regarding colonisation of social market economies by Anglo-Saxon capitalism which takes as incontestable the maximisation of shareholder value as the proper and necessary aim of corporate activity. It is argued that corporate propaganda has contributed to the accounting measure of business success being justified as an end in itself at the explicit expense of wider societal considerations. purported rationale and its outcomes. Rather it aims to identify, and also to postulate, certain potentially discernible processes by which Anglo-Saxon capitalist ideology is sustained and may be extended. It considers how highly contestable ideas and values may be rendered uncontentious -both within and beyond the technical discourse of accounting and finance.Accounting and finance practices (and related education and research activity [7] ) are themselves part of the apparatus which maintains the ideological status quo (see, for example, Burchell et al.

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Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability

Collison

2003

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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“…Others, however, are more pessimistic, regarding these shifts as mere publicity, part of the 'supermarket state' (Christensen and Laegreid, 2000), promoting an illusion of transparency and accountability (Born, 2004;Freedman, 2005;Redding, 2005), while rendering the relations of the regulator to the industry less visible (Ryan, 2000) and further excluding marginalised groups (Purvis and Hunt, 1999). In the academy, critical voices outweigh the optimists: Rose (1999: 385) critiques the neo-liberal project by which governance functions through 'autonomy', 'empowerment' and 'choice', and which activates an individualistic and instrumentalist framework for citizens positioned as consumers rather than as members of a civic community (Harrison, 1999;Needham, 2003).…”

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Citizens and consumers: discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003

Livingstone

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Miller

2007

Media, Culture & Society

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The regulation of media and communications in the UK has recently been subject to reform resulting in the creation of the Office of Communications (Ofcom). This statutory body, established by an Act of Parliament, is a new, sector-wide regulator, protecting the interests of what has been termed the ‘citizen-consumer’. This article charts the discursive shifts that occurred during the passage of the Communications Act through Parliament and in the initial stages of its implementation to understand how and why the term ‘citizen-consumer’ came to lie at the heart of the new regulator’s mission. By critically analysing the various alignments of ‘citizen’ and ‘consumer’ interests within the debates, the underlying struggles over the formulation of power, responsibility and duties for the new regulator and for other stakeholders – industry, government and public – are identified. The article concludes that the legacy of these debates is that regulatory provisions designed to further the ‘citizen interest’ contain significant and unresolved dilemmas.

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Halkla İli̇şki̇ler Modelleri̇nde Yeni̇ İleti̇şi̇m Kanallarinin Kullanimi

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Propaganda, Persuasion and Symmetry: Local and Central Government Perspectives on Communicating with the Citizen

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Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability

Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability

Citizens and consumers: discursive debates during and after the Communications Act 2003

Halkla İli̇şki̇ler Modelleri̇nde Yeni̇ İleti̇şi̇m Kanallarinin Kullanimi

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