Propaganda in the Information Age

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<P><EM>Propaganda in the Information Age</EM> is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky''s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself.</P><P>2018 marks 30 years since the publication of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky''s ground-breaking book <EM>Manufacturing Consent</EM>, which lifted the veil over how the mass media operate. The book''s model presented five filters which all potentially newsworthy events must pass through before they reach our TV screens, smartphones or newspapers. In <EM>Propaganda in the Information Age</EM>, many of the world''s leading media scholars, analysts and journalists use this model to explore the modern media world, covering some of the most pressing contemporary topics such as fake news, Cambridge Analytica, the Syrian Civil War and Russiagate. The collection also acknowledges that in an