Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

by Samuel Woolley

Book Overview

An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propaganda

Until recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Samuel Woolley argues that social media has democratized today's propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated, computationally enhanced influence campaign. Woolley shows how social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300251238
• ISBN13: 9780300251234
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"