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Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting As Antiterrorism Weapons: Philosophical Dilemmas, Ibpp Editor
Public Diplomacy And International Broadcasting As Antiterrorism Weapons: Philosophical Dilemmas, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes problematic assumptions in differentiating public diplomacy from international broadcasting as weapons against terrorism with global reach.
The Internet And Political Campaigns: Some Early Considerations, Ibpp Editor
The Internet And Political Campaigns: Some Early Considerations, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article provides hypotheses on the effects of the Internet on political campaigns. The IBPP staff hopes that researchers among its readers will attempt to evaluate these hypotheses through combinations of empiricism, rationalism, and other epistemological approaches.
The Taliban Touch: Is Smashing Tv Sets A Smashing Idea?, Ibpp Editor
The Taliban Touch: Is Smashing Tv Sets A Smashing Idea?, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article contains a commentary on a new public policy announced by the Taliban movement in Afghanistan that will proscribe televisions, videocassette recorders, videotapes, and satellite dishes among the people under its control. The commentary focuses on the potential political consequences of this policy based on psychological research on the effects of television.
Pen, Peru, Pornography, Propaganda, And Power, Ibpp Editor
Pen, Peru, Pornography, Propaganda, And Power, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The author discusses the postmodern approaches to basic tenets of science which often deconstruct basic concepts such as cause and effect, prediction, empirical validation, and the like.
Rumor Analysis: Nato, Radiation Weapons, And Gornja Omarska, Ibpp Editor
Rumor Analysis: Nato, Radiation Weapons, And Gornja Omarska, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article identifies factors contributing to the credibility of a rumor transmitted by and among some Bosnian Serbs that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) employed radiation weapons in it's 1995 bombing campaign leading up to the Dayton peace accords.
Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Iii), Ibpp Editor
Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Iii), Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The last installment of this article posits proto-principles of propaganda. (See IBPP Vol. 1, No. 17 and Vol. 2, No.1 for the first two installments.)
Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Ii), Ibpp Editor
Political Propaganda: A Postmodernist Analysis (Part Ii), Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
Part I of this paper (IBPP, Vol. 1, No. 17) describes the conceptual problems inherent to propaganda as process. Now Part II will describe the psychological rationale for why propaganda is employed by governments and nonstate actors regardless of these problems.