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Mediji i manipulacija
Media and Manipulation

Author(s): Braco Kovačević
Subject(s): Media studies, Politics and communication, Theory of Communication, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci
Keywords: media; propaganda; conflicts; Balkans; new world order; media role and importance; media and everyday life; politics; politics and media;

Summary/Abstract: The role and importance of the media are huge, both in everyday life and in cultural, spiritual and political life of modern man. Their power in the sense of political shaping of people and shaping of public opinion is very distinctive. In the process of propaganda to influence public opinion, they use various manipulative procedures in order to accomplish certain interests and objectives. Through the media, politics realises its economic, ideological, political and even military activities. The war in the former Yugoslavia and former Bosnia and Herzegovina was also waged through the media. This media war still is spreading the hate speech, thus still causing conflicts and disintegration processes in the Balkans.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 55-71
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian