The document discusses the role of literacy and propaganda in the American Revolution. It notes that the literacy rate in pre-war America was around 66.8% for males, allowing propaganda to influence many colonists. Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" was a seminal work of propaganda that helped unite colonists against British rule by giving a voice to anti-monarchy sentiments. Its widespread popularity was enabled by the literacy of the time and helped propel the move towards independence.
Beyond Hegemony :Classical Propaganda Theory and Presidential Communication S...Mahfud Achyar
Classical Propaganda Theory
1. Propaganda is an essentially situational, pragmatic and not ideological phenomenon.
2. Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community.
3. Classical situational propaganda concerns its relative independence from ideology.
Beyond Hegemony :Classical Propaganda Theory and Presidential Communication S...Mahfud Achyar
Classical Propaganda Theory
1. Propaganda is an essentially situational, pragmatic and not ideological phenomenon.
2. Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of the community.
3. Classical situational propaganda concerns its relative independence from ideology.
As my history teacher in Rhodesia reminded us: Beware the victor’s version!
As early as 1930, John Dewey observed that: We are exposed to the greatest flood of mass suggestion that any people has yet experienced.
Propaganda is to Democracies what violence is to Dictatorships.
- See more at: http://reformationsa.org/index.php/history/175-how-propaganda-changes-perceptions-and-people#sthash.bGt1QTXy.dpuf
his article argues that women of colour were central to the process of the legal transition to free labour in Cuba. Through an examination of legal appeals for freedom – which were often facilitated by new opportunities created by transition legislation – it shows that women were motivated by factors such as their families and frequently by their position as urban domestic servants. They could also make use of gendered understandings of slavery and freedom, which were socially prevalent although not legally enshrined. The paper argues that a focus on women and gender may have important implications for our understanding of Cuba's transition to free labour and of some of the constructions of citizenship and nationhood with which it was entwined.
Video of the conference can be found here: http://media.ruc.dk/2012-10-05_3/iframe2.html
Title: The Committee on Public Information: Persuading a nation to war
Paper Abstract: This paper discusses findings from an archival case study of the Committee on Public Information about how the cultural systems of propaganda, journalism and popular culture can be used in persuading, informing and entertaining of audiences to galvanize support for a cause. The Committee on Public Information (CPI) was an American government propaganda organisation credited with successfully mobilizing public opinion to gain support to enter World War I. The CPI had over twenty divisions. This study analyses three: the Division of News, composed of newspapermen to gain media support; the Four Minute Men, a national group of rhetorical orators who spoke at motion-picture houses; and the Division of Pictorial Publicity, a group of famous illustrators who created the only colour images available of the war.
A variety of opposed stakeholders, including immigrants of Irish and German descent, women who were considered dangerous pacifists, and businessmen whose industries were needed to generate war goods, were addressed through a transmedia campaign. Strategies of the campaign included media relations, endorsements by public figures and celebrities, and inducing citizen-to-citizen peer pressure at a local level, and social interaction on a local, state and national level. The CPI’s propaganda campaign utilized all media forms available at that time including the tactics of speeches, posters, buttons, music, school competitions, and fashion. The highly successful campaign rallied the nation to arms and war work, and convinced Americans to change their daily lives in order to ration war goods and financially support the war.
The study contributes to understanding how the expectations of persuasion, truth and amusement relate to each other when mediated in cultural systems. An analysis using close reading of archival documents and Yuri Lotman’s concept of the semiosphere found that media credibility and transmedia bridged a gap between disparate cultural systems to create a successful campaign.
As my history teacher in Rhodesia reminded us: Beware the victor’s version!
As early as 1930, John Dewey observed that: We are exposed to the greatest flood of mass suggestion that any people has yet experienced.
Propaganda is to Democracies what violence is to Dictatorships.
- See more at: http://reformationsa.org/index.php/history/175-how-propaganda-changes-perceptions-and-people#sthash.bGt1QTXy.dpuf
his article argues that women of colour were central to the process of the legal transition to free labour in Cuba. Through an examination of legal appeals for freedom – which were often facilitated by new opportunities created by transition legislation – it shows that women were motivated by factors such as their families and frequently by their position as urban domestic servants. They could also make use of gendered understandings of slavery and freedom, which were socially prevalent although not legally enshrined. The paper argues that a focus on women and gender may have important implications for our understanding of Cuba's transition to free labour and of some of the constructions of citizenship and nationhood with which it was entwined.
Video of the conference can be found here: http://media.ruc.dk/2012-10-05_3/iframe2.html
Title: The Committee on Public Information: Persuading a nation to war
Paper Abstract: This paper discusses findings from an archival case study of the Committee on Public Information about how the cultural systems of propaganda, journalism and popular culture can be used in persuading, informing and entertaining of audiences to galvanize support for a cause. The Committee on Public Information (CPI) was an American government propaganda organisation credited with successfully mobilizing public opinion to gain support to enter World War I. The CPI had over twenty divisions. This study analyses three: the Division of News, composed of newspapermen to gain media support; the Four Minute Men, a national group of rhetorical orators who spoke at motion-picture houses; and the Division of Pictorial Publicity, a group of famous illustrators who created the only colour images available of the war.
A variety of opposed stakeholders, including immigrants of Irish and German descent, women who were considered dangerous pacifists, and businessmen whose industries were needed to generate war goods, were addressed through a transmedia campaign. Strategies of the campaign included media relations, endorsements by public figures and celebrities, and inducing citizen-to-citizen peer pressure at a local level, and social interaction on a local, state and national level. The CPI’s propaganda campaign utilized all media forms available at that time including the tactics of speeches, posters, buttons, music, school competitions, and fashion. The highly successful campaign rallied the nation to arms and war work, and convinced Americans to change their daily lives in order to ration war goods and financially support the war.
The study contributes to understanding how the expectations of persuasion, truth and amusement relate to each other when mediated in cultural systems. An analysis using close reading of archival documents and Yuri Lotman’s concept of the semiosphere found that media credibility and transmedia bridged a gap between disparate cultural systems to create a successful campaign.
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I have acquired a lot of knowledge about the history of the United States in this semester. However, there are three most interesting facts that I’ve learned from the history of the country. The firsts interesting knowledge is that South and North America was occupied by Indians before Europeans arrived. When the Europeans arrived to the United States, it was not a wilderness. There are communities which inhabited the land and called it their home. While the Europeans found a new world the natives considered it an ancient homeland (Foner, 2013). I learnt this information from the course textbook as well as from other external sources related to the coursework.
South and North America was inhabited by Indians and contained irrigation systems, roads, cities as well as large structures like the pyramid temples which until today inspire wonder by their beauty. Tenochtitlan, the capital City of Aztec Empire with a population of approximately 250,000 people was considered to be one of the largest cities in the world in that period. The Aztec empire is what toy is referred to as Mexico. In the far south, was the Inca kingdom what is referred to as Peru in the modern society. The kingdom’s dense population was characterized by complex road and bridge systems.
In North America, Indian civilization had not developed the centralized, scale or grandeur of the Inca and Aztec societies in the south. However, the Indians in the North America lacked the technology that the Europeans had such as gun power, machines and metal tools as well as the scientific knowledge that helped them to navigate in the sea. They were also illiterate although some could make maps. This led to their conquest by the Europeans. Nevertheless, the Indian societies had acquired techniques of fishing, farming and hunting, established structures of religious beliefs and political power and engaged in extensive communication and trade networks.
This information is shocking because I thought that North and South America were inhabited by white people before the European arrived. It is also interesting how the Indian societies had mastered various skills even without literacy. This information is very important to my understanding of the history of America since it helps understand were we have come from and appreciate the efforts put in by our fore fathers to realize the kind of life we live today. It also helps me to relate the history of America with the culture and the lifestyle we embrace today.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
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2. For anything to succeed, all of the members
involved must understand the purpose of what is
trying to be accomplished.
Without the majority of those involved having an
understanding of the purposes of their cause,
nothing could be accomplished.
There are many ways of getting people to come
together for something, but it is much more
difficult to bring together a large group of
people, such as a country.
Propaganda is the best way to get across a single
purpose to thousands, or millions of people.
3. Propaganda is the spreading of ideas in various
forms to promote or harm a cause, person, or
idea. (McDonald, Palmer)
The case in study for this research is the
American Revolution.
Propaganda comes in many different forms.
During this time period it came mainly through
writing such as posters, paintings, pamphlets, or
books.
Propagandists tend to use circumstantial
evidence and turn it against a cause, person, or
idea, and use it for their purpose. Although
sometimes, it may be true, often times it is
embellished.
4. The single most important thing to make
propaganda effective is the ability of the
audience to comprehend the message.
During this time period, the intended
audience would have had to been able to read
to understand propaganda.
The most accurate measure for the
effectiveness of propaganda at this time
would have been studying the countries
literacy rate at the time of the American
Revolution.
5. The Literacy Rate of a Literacy Rate
country is simply a
measure of how many 100
people are literate, or 80
have the ability to read
and write, in that area. 60
66.8% of all Males were 40
literate Literacy
White males had the 20
Rate
power to make 0
decisions during this
time, and 77.1% of
white males were
literate. (Herndon)
6. The literacy rate of pre-war America proves to us
that the majority of Americans that had the
ability to make changes and influence society
could read and understand the propaganda that
was before them.
Because they could understand this, this
facilitated the revolutionary effort to get
everyone in the colonies on the same page and
rebel from England.
While not everyone was literate, people that were
able to understand propaganda were able to
explain it to the minority that was
illiterate, further influencing the American
Republic.
7. The pre-war era in American history is an action
packed time.
Feeling oppressed by an increase in British
taxes, and tired of being ruled by a country that
they fled, the American people knew it was time
for change.
Many people held the same feelings, but there
was a lack of people who would speak up.
This is where we meet one of the most famous
propagandists in American history, Thomas
Paine.
8. Thomas Paine was an English
political radical that came to the
American colonies in 1774.
In January of 1776, he wrote
and published the most famous
and influential pieces of
literature in American
history, Common Sense.
Through Common
Sense, Thomas explained that it
was “common sense” for
Americans to declare their
independence from Britain.
When he had successfully
dismissed the King of
England, George III, as only a
“royal brute,” he had helped
colonists cut the final ties to the
Mother Country. (Aldridge)
9. When the pamphlet by Thomas Paine first
surfaced, few had publically voiced the fact of the
corruption in the Mother Country.
Common Sense was the first work that voiced the
opinion of the vast majority of American’s
publically, and it appealed to nearly all who read it.
Common Sense sold about 120,000 copies during the
first three months it was in print, and it’s words
resounded in American taverns and coffee shops.
Those who couldn’t read had the book explained to
them. Those who could read loudly proclaimed the
glory of what they had heard!
Farmers, artisans, shopkeepers, and laborers jumped
on board for the quest for independence, and a
revolution was born.
10. In January of 1776, Common Sense was
released to the public.
On July 4th, 1776, America declared her
independence from the Mother Country of
England. (Davidson)
Thomas Paine successfully united the
American people with his publishing of the
pamphlet Common Sense.
Many propagandists produced their own forms
of propaganda during the war, but none were
as widespread and successful as the pamphlet
written by Thomas Paine.
11. Here is an example
of Revolutionary
War Propaganda.
It depicts these nice
gentlemen and the
different positions
they have learned by
joining the military.
It appeals to all
Americans who were
capable of fighting
by basically showing
them that they
could become like
this able bodied
gentleman they see
(Steller).
in front of them.
12. Originally, I wanted to know what effect literacy
had throughout history on the development of the
United States of America as a nation.
This led me to propaganda, and the fact that
literacy is needed to understand the works of
propaganda.
Then I amended my question to ask what effect
propaganda had in regards to American history.
This led me to the American Revolution. The
American Revolution is the most pivotal time in
American history, and the work of Thomas Paine
makes us who we are today. Without literacy and
effective propaganda, we may not be the United
States of America.
13. “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
When it is considered, the pen is the most
powerful single object in the universe.
The signing of documents started every
major war in history, freed slaves, began the
holocaust, and declared our independence
from Britain.
The pen is what was used by Thomas Paine to
unite the American people for the cause of
uniting in our independence from Britain, and
making us the nation we are today.
14.
15. Aldridge, A. Owen. Thomas Paine's American Ideology.
Associated University Presses, 1984. Print
Davidson, Phillip. Propaganda and the American Revolution
1763-1783. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1941. Print.
Herndon, Ruth. "Literacy Among New England's Transient
Poor, 1750-1800." Questia. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov 2011.
http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5000392518
Jennifer Steller. Revolutionary War Propaganda. N.d. Photograph.
flickrWeb. 29 Nov 2011.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravura/galleries/72157624012
358546>.
McDonald, Andy, and Palmer, Lene. "Response-ible
Rhetorics."Purpose of Propaganda. George Mason
University, 2003. Web. 6 Nov 2011.
<http://mason.gmu.edu/~amcdonal/Purpose of
Propaganda.html>.
16. Throughout this project, I kept one thing in
mind. I wanted to learn something about
American history through writing.
I intend for this presentation to be viewed by
educational level students, preferably high-
school or college level.
I wanted to take a power point and make it
clearly explain its own purpose without having to
be presented. This resulted in multiple “action
packed” slides.
I enjoyed doing this research on this topic, and
have really learned just how powerful literature
and the ability to read and write can be in our
lives rather we realize it or not.
Editor's Notes
Case study?
I can get the connection between these points, but you may want to make it more explicit