This is not propaganda : adventures in the war against reality / Peter Pomerantsev.
Publication details: London : Faber & Faber, 2019.Description: v, 270 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780571338634
- 0571338631
- 303.375 23
- HM1231 .P664 2019
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 303.375 POM | Available | 069992 |
On the title page "not" is underlined.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Cities of Trolls -- pt. 2 Democracy at Sea -- pt. 3 The Most Amazing Information Warfare Blitzkrieg in History -- pt. 4 Soft Facts -- pt. 5 Pop-Up People -- pt. 6 The Future Starts Here.
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part reportage, part intellectual adventure, This is Not Propaganda is a Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy.
