Information Asymmetries and Their Challenge to International Broadcasting

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Authors and Corporations: Price, Monroe Edwin (Author)
published: 2016
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Item Description: Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Media and Communication ; 4 (2016) 1 ; 46-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i2.478
Language: English
Subjects:
internationale Politik
Auslandsrundfunk
Informationspolitik
Informationsfluss
Asymmetrie
Rundfunk
Medienpolitik
Außenpolitik
Sicherheitspolitik
Meinungsbildung
Meinungsführer
Information
Propaganda
Collection: SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository
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Dramatic symmetries in strategies and techniques of persuasion create challenges to the functioning of established actors in the global media ecology, including international broadcasters. This essay articulates an adaptation of the concept of asymmetric warfare to the field of propaganda, persuasion and recruitment. It examines the particular challenge of certain asymmetric entrants, including ISIS and categorizes how the more traditional entities and government institutions react to these new entrants in markets for loyalties. (author's abstract)