This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book ...explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Vichy France, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Portuguese Macau, Brazil, South Africa, Laos, Yugoslavia, Egypt, India, Malta, and Sweden. The individual chapters analyse the methods and channels of propaganda utilised in neutral countries, including rumours, newspapers, cartoons, films, pamphlets and magazines as well as radio broadcasts, official reports, diplomatic movements, cultural campaigns and soft power. They look to understand how these methods and channels have been deployed and how effective they have been in changing or reinforcing opinions and outcomes. Finally the book highlights the interaction between the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. It considers whether neutrality is a form of propaganda in itself, whether it is possible to be truly neutral in any propaganda battle and how the different forms of neutrality, including projected strict neutrality, non-belligerency and non-alignment, have been utilised by neutrals and belligerents to achieve propaganda goals in the last 120 years. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
The introduction of indigenous languages to Kenyan media, following pre- and post-independence realities, opened the floodgate of communications within the country, with both positive and negative ...consequences. Indigenous languages found expression in creative works, civic communication, and other areas previously reserved solely for English and Kiswahili. Kanana and Kinyua discuss this trajectory within the context of media liberalization, digital migration, and gains from the period of state crackdown on media to the promulgation of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution and devolution of government units reflecting traditional boundaries. Employing secondary research methodologies, they argue the advantages of indigenous languages in the media over the disadvantages highlighted in the literature.
The rapid growth of radio broadcast services has created a vast amount of audio data that can provide insights into public opinion and emotions. This research extends the boundaries of sentiment ...analysis to audio data and aims to propose a computational approach which is termed as bifurcate and mix, for sentiment analysis and emotion detection that leverages advanced natural language processing techniques from audio sentiment analysis tools like Vokaturi, transcription services like AssemblyAI and text sentiment analysis lexicons like VADER to extract and categorize sentiments from the audio data to generate a more efficient real-time sentiment analysis model. The results of the analysis reveal patterns and trends in the sentiments expressed in radio broadcasts by the News Service Division: All India Radio - 'Akashwani'. This research's methodology will contribute to the development of novel applications for sentiment analysis in the media industry and provide valuable insights into public opinion and emotions.
The research of Western radio audiences in the Soviet Union was carried out by the department of Soviet Area Audience and Opinion Research, which was in charge of the RFE/RL; however, factual surveys ...were conducted by independent research institutes, which ensured that the results were neutral and no prejudices with regard to a particular broadcaster were present. The key indices to be measured were the size of the audience that listened to Western radio broadcasts as well as the listeners’ behavioral patterns. Making use of these parameters, the authorities of these radios were able to modify the character of radio programming, to design the content of the information provided, and to observe the potential influence of radio broadcasts in the context of ideological opposition. It is important to stress that based on the methodology and the amount of information available at that time, individual persons’ surveys conducted by Radio Liberty audience and the opinion research department were not adequate to what is considered, in the contemporary sense, proper public opinion research.
Vakarų radijo transliacijos, prasiskverbiančios pro geležinę uždangą, Šaltojo karo metais vaidino svarbų vaidmenį JAV ir Sovietų Sąjungos ideologinėje kovoje už protus ir širdis. Siekdami efektyvesnio radijo laidų programų pritaikymo sovietiniam klausytojui, transliuotojai susidūrė su sudėtinga sovietinės užsienio radijo auditorijos pažinimo problema. Po Stalino mirties palaipsniui didėjant turistų, keliaujančių iš SSRS į Vakarų bloko valstybes, srautams, buvo sukurta speciali metodika, leidusi sovietinių turistų apklausų būdu daryti pirmąsias išvadas apie Vakarų radijo auditorijos dydį, sudėtį bei sovietinių gyventojų nuostatas tiek valdžios atžvilgiu, tiek vertinant politinius įvykius. Sovietų Lietuvos gyventojų apklausos atskleidė vidutinio užsienio radijo klausytojo paveikslą ir tam tikras lietuvių politines nuostatas, išskiriančias juos iš kitų sąjunginių respublikų gyventojų.
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In the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the ...day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used both to promote and deflect eugenic thinking.
Este artículo contextualiza y analiza las opiniones que los radioescuchas del programa radial Antología Musical de Colombia enviaron a su director, el músico colombiano Oriol Rangel. Estas fueron ...transmitidas en cartas y comentaron los valores de la “música nacional”, núcleo del programa, identificada con los géneros populares andinos. Aquí se muestran las confluencias entre radio comercial, industria discográfica nacional, crítica especializada y audiencias radiales a mediados del siglo XX colombiano. Las opiniones de los oyentes, reconstruidas a partir de fuentes primarias novedosas, expresaron hábitos de escucha, jerarquías estéticas y ansiedades por la percepción de pérdida de la “música nacional”.
This article contextualizes and analyzes the opinions of people who listened to the radio program the Antología Musical de Colombia, as found in the letters they sent to its director, the Colombian ...musician Oriol Rangel. In those letters, listeners remarked on the values of the “national music” of Colombia, the core of the program, which was drawn from popular genres of Andean music. The article shows the convergence of commercial radio networks, the national record industry, specialized criticism and radio audiences in the mid-20th century in Colombia. The opinions of the listeners, which are recreated on the basis of novel original sources, reveal their listening habits, aesthetic preferences and anxiety about what they regarded as the loss of “national music”.
Scholars from various research disciplines have focused on ways of helping a civilian population withstand mass natural or human-instigated disasters. The present study examines the theoretical ...principles suggested by Hobfoll et al. (safety, calming, efficacy, connectedness and hope)
by an analysis of the spontaneous discourse of educational radio presenters during emergency broadcasts when the region's residents live under the constant danger of rocket fire. This study analysed 198 broadcasting hours sampled from three different periods of military conflict (2008−14).
The radio presenters' spontaneous discourse was analysed by content, drawing a distinction between resilience-promoting (function) and resilience-impairing (dysfunction) messages. The findings show that despite the presenters' intention to help the community contend with the difficult
situation, numerous resilience-impairing messages also appeared in their spontaneous discourse. The present study contributes by providing an additional layer of theoretical research on interventions in community stress situations and looks at utilizing the potential inherent in educational
radio as a tool to aid development of community resilience.
The concept of thriving amidst trauma receives minimal attention when addressing negative life experiences of Black women and girls. This work examines strategies employed and recommended by Black ...women and girls that prompt thriving amidst traumatic circumstances. Radio broadcasts from the National Girls and Women of Color Council serve as data for the topic. Findings reveal the strength of Black women and girls in dealing with trauma, holding the potential to move beyond coping with circumstances, towards potential thriving in education and beyond.
In 2018 the Jerusalem District Court fined the Haredi Kol Barama radio station 1 million shekels ($280,000) for excluding women from the airwaves, stirring outrage within the Haredi community, highly ...sensitive to appearances of women in public contexts, which had created the station to provide radio broadcasts for its constituents, whose needs were not met by mainstream radio stations. The affair thus serves as a cardinal test of the level of freedom of a radio station, the interests of minority religious audiences, and the powers and responsibilities of the supervising public broadcasting authority.
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