Beyond Propaganda

Description

Starting in Putin's Russia, this course will analyze how propaganda has been transformed across the world. Join Peter Pomerantsev, senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute, to look at how this challenges traditional ways of defining a democratic information environment, and consider ways we can reinvent a world besieged by bots, trolls, fake news and post-truth politicians.

Course syllabus:

• Week 1, Oct. 1: Pomerantsev will introduce how Putin's propaganda found new ways to undermine democracy with disinformation
• Week 2, Oct. 8: This lecture will take us across the world, to explore how disinformation and propaganda has changed from the U.S. to Asia, and why we are so hapless to fight it
• Week 3, Oct. 15: We will consider ways to redefine democracy in an age of the new disinformation

Assigned readings: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia and This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev.

This event is part of Hopkins at Home.