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Though often defined as having opposite aims, means, and effects, modernism and modern propaganda developed at the same time and influenced each other in surprising ways. The professional propagandist emerged as one kind of information specialist, the modernist writer as another. Britain was particularly important to this double history. By secretly hiring well-known writers and intellectuals to write for the government and by exploiting their control of new global information systems, the British in World War I invented a new template for the manipulation of information that remains with us to this day. Making a persuasive case for the importance of understanding modernism in the context of the history of modern propaganda, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda also helps explain the origins of today's highly propagandized world. Modernism, Media, and Propaganda integrates new archival research with fresh interpretations of British fiction and film to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the relationship between modernism and propaganda in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. From works by Joseph Conrad to propaganda films by Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, Mark Wollaeger traces the transition from literary to cinematic propaganda while offering compelling close readings of major fiction by Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce.

This chapter focuses on the well‐oiled machine that Beijing has developed to make sure its media message is properly and uniformly delivered and to craft and control that message by making decisions at the top and letting those coverage guidelines filter down to the provinces with ever‐increasing speed. Cogs in the machine are many and varied, ranging from placement of a Communist Party secretary in the top ranks of most major media, to frequent phone calls and memos sent by the Propaganda Ministry to senior editors at those same media. The chapter further provides an insight into the rise of the Internet as a new major media force with China officially surpassing the United States in 2008 to become the world's biggest online market based on the number of web surfers.

The evolution of ideas about the losses of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War in their demographic and, separately, political dimensions and contexts is analyzed. The emphasis is placed on the structural nature of these assessments and the importance of resisting their instrumentalization by extrascientific interests.

This article examines the goals and practices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine in the 1970s, a Soviet institution that functioned as an ideological organ fighting against Ukrainian nationalists domestically and abroad. The central figure of this article is Heorhii Shevel who governed the Ministry from 1970 to 1980 and whose tactics, strategies, and practices reveal the existence of a distinct phenomenon in the Soviet Union—the nationally conscious political elite with double loyalties who, by action or inaction, expanded the space of nationalism in Ukraine. This research illuminates a paradox of pervasive Soviet power, which produced an institution that supported and reinforced Soviet “anti-nationalist” ideology, simultaneously creating an environment where heterodox views or sentiments were stimulated and nurtured.

Under the influence of rapid technological development and the growing pressure of social media, the Romanian Army has changed its approach of interacting with civil society. The Ministry of National Defense has constantly adjusted its messages to respond not only to informational needs, but also to the objectives of creating and maintaining an active digital community. In this paper, we analyze the general characteristics of the posts on the Ministry of National Defense’s Facebook platform in 2024, using content analysis methods applied through the NVivo program. The ministry’s posts are sober, neutral, predominantly informative and contain substantial visual elements. They convey the image of a modern army, deeply involved in both NATO and the social life of the country. Through these characteristics, the posts correspond to institutional requirements regarding online communication, presence, and behavior in the public space in a labor market dominated by Generations X and Y. However, since its future recruits are part of Generations Z and Alpha, the Romanian Army will have to adjust its online communication strategies to address their needs and digital consumption habits.

Esta investigación ha consistido en el análisis, descripción e interpretación de la documentación fotográfica relacionada con el arquitecto Emilio Pérez Piñero. Tras un proceso de recopilación documental, se ha realizado una propuesta de cuadro de clasificación, dedicando una sección del fondo Emilio Pérez Piñero a Archivo Fotográfico; se han definido los descriptores más comunes y se ha creado una ficha documental tipo, conforme a las reglas actuales de archivística. El objetivo de este artículo es dar a conocer la estructura y el contenido del archivo fotográfico, como una puesta más en valor de la figura y obra del arquitecto como generador y difusor de imágenes. 

How should the corporate sector engage in fighting the global burden of the AIDS epidemic? India's relatively low HIV prevalence rate often raises the question of whether it is in corporate sector interest to allocate resources to combat HIV and AIDS. The five case studies in this report feature a selection of Indian companies that felt compelled to engage in this fight and id allocate resources in order to do so. The challenges these companies encountered and innovative methods they used to surmount these challenges serve as useful lessons for those interested in launching similar intiatives.

A brief history of the UK's Ministry of Information (MOI) is presented. The MOI was started to disseminate propaganda and sustain morale. The MOI's transitional role in developing the UK's official information services after WWII is also examined.

On 4 August 1917, the third anniversary of Britain’s entry into the First World War, David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, addressed the inaugural meeting of the National War Aims Committee (NWAC) at the Queen’s Hall in Westminster. Despite his reservations about the performance of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France and Belgium (and more particularly its commander-in-chief, Sir Douglas Haig), he praised the ‘British method of advancing with the least cost in life’ which, he said, took time but was ‘sure’. But whilst the army is fighting so valiantly let the nation behind it be patient, be