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Rumors That Changed the World

A History of Violence and Discrimination

Автор: Eugen O. Chirovici

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Издател: Lexington Books

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The aim of the book is to explore the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-...

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Автор

Eugen O. Chirovici

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2014

страници

192

EAN

9781498500838

ISBN

1498500838

Enbook ID

06401024

Издател

Lexington Books

Теглоt

442

Размери

159 x 238 x 26

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The aim of the book is to explore the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-1990s, examining it as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Usually defined as an unverified account that circulates from one person to another and refers to an object, event, or matter of public interest, rumor and its impact have largely been ignored by scholars and authors. Eugen O. Chirovici has tried not only to describe a number of major historic events, but also to explain how the rumors that influenced them came into being and to account for the collective desires or fears that nurtured them. Merely to conclude that the human mind has always been vulnerable to rumors, sometimes with lethal consequences, is not enough; it is important to understand not only what happens, but also why it happens. For at least three reasons, Chirovici thinks that it is important-particularly in this era of explosive development in mass communications-to understand the complex mechanisms whereby rumors emerge and spread. The first is that history has taught us that in certain circumstances rumors can be extremely dangerous, being employed as tools of manipulation, disinformation and propaganda. The second relates to a deeper understanding of the way in which the most recent inventions-the Internet, social networks, digital landscape-affect and will go on affecting our lives; the virtual world is a historically unprecedented vehicle for the dissemination of rumors. And the third has to do with the wider and more nebulous idea of progress. In other words, are we less vulnerable to rumors today than we were, for example, in the Middle Ages?

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