This PowerPoint helps students to consider the concept of infinity.
Propaganda techniques with examples and etc
1. Propaganda as Persuasion: Seven Techniques
Introduction: Three Concepts
•The Rhetorical Continuum: Information(We like) . . . to Persuasion . . . to
Propaganda (We dislike)
Information Persuasion propaganda
(like) (dislike)
•Modern Science and Rhetoric: SMCR model and the two step flow
perspective
S-M-C-R Model
Source Message Channel Receiver
Two Steps
me media (step one)
(step two) (We check out media messages with friends
and then make up our minds)
me & friends
•Inoculation Theory: Examples--Korean War and Brain Washing, Patti Hearst
2. Seven Propaganda Techniques
Name Calling
Glittering Generalities
Transfer
Testimonial
Plain Folks
Band Wagon
High Bred Mergers
3. Name Calling
The Power of Labeling (Stasis Theory)
Ad Hominum Fallacy (name calling)
Example: “a business women” why not a business person?
Example: “Hanna Arendt and the ‘solution’” or euphemisms
5. Transfer
•Carry over from one concept to another
•Use of Metaphor both Verbal and Visual
•Example: Clinton and Cartoons
6. Testimonial
•The use of famous people (Ethos appeals)
•Ad Vercundium Fallacy (only one source)
•Example: Charlton Heston speaks for republican party
7. Plain Folks
•“Of the people”
•Source and audience are the same (hides differences)
•Example: Clinton eats at McDonalds
9. Hybrid Mergers
•Blending Techniques
•Try to confuse the audience
•Example: Merging abortion with politics
•Examples: Big lies--Hitler; Limbaugh
Declarations, “that’s me” & simple answers
Time, Buchanan (picture with workers)