Coinage, Debunked Doctor, Doctrine for propaganda, False analogy, Points to Ponder, Quote & Mediated communication

Coinage, Debunked Doctor, Doctrine for propaganda, False analogy, Points to Ponder, Quote & Mediated communication By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

Need of Coinage

·       ‘The characterization of historical analysis as a form of fiction is not likely to be received sympathetically by either historians or literary critics, who agree that history and fiction deal with distinct orders of experience’. Thanks to the fictionalization of history, history, however in many cases is no more than the fictitious account of the happenings in the past; and I desperately need a coinage to describe the analysis of the historical fiction.  The use of doctrine for propaganda.

Freud the Debunked doctor of History?

·       I do not know how Freud may or possibly he has responded to metamorphosis one undergoes in consequence of exploring the interior geography as he says childhood experience is the crucible of character; however, I believe that there has to be trawl through his writings to cull his responses for the logical dissection to questions tempting us to lump Freud with Karl Marx as a philosopher whose century has come and gone. Freud can not be the debunked doctor of modern history as long as it is not conclusively proven that the intellectual relevance of his has ceased to continue.

The use of Doctrine for Propaganda

·        It is not important for the doctrine to wear scientific garb to become the force as masses are not seized by scientific arguments; however the doctrine people are supposed to adhere must, only for the reason of political efficacy, maintain contact with reality.

False analogy

·        Doctors are sad to know that people are free from disease and politicians are   sad to know that people are free from troubles; therefore both give advice to people to get into trouble to be relevant.

Points to Ponder

·        The brutal truth that triumphs of democracy happened in different parts of the world in spite of America not because of America is a poignant commentary on American’s championing of the freedom of expression and makes its every claim of upholding the temple of democracy rings hollow.

·        Every intellectual is admired by his own school of thought; the views of a true intellectual are respected by even those of other school of thought as thoughtful as controversial.

Quotable Quotes

·       Doing the wrong thing in a right way makes one a clever devil and a right thing n a wrong way a foolish angel.  

POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN POST-INDUSTRIAL TIMES

“Communication in pre-industrial societies was predominantly personal and oral in direct, face-to-face interactions in place of worship, where ritual and sermons organized spiritual life; in courts and chambers, where officials held audiences; and in homes and communities, where the roots of cultural life were sunk deep in the soil of everyday social interactions. Communication___ the transmission of ideas, feelings, attitudes, and experiences__ was not meditated by technologies of communication. However, as is the case today, communication flows were superintended by dominant institutions. Lines of authority and personnel contact were well delineated, and ruling interests used whatever means lay at their disposal to transmit the versions of custom, belief, superstition, law, and power that suited them best. What distinguishes pre-industrial times from our own is that contact with social authority occurred through personal intermediaries. In modern society, direct and personal interaction is no longer the exclusive form of communication; it is now supplanted by interactions mediated by new technologies”. 

 In pre-industrial era, same people at the same place confronted and overcame same problems with the help of same authority figure. Ironically, spatial concentration of the population led to decreasing levels of interpersonal contact; and contact with one who claimed to have key to problems of urban life had to be built. The political communication very soon began to fill the gap with messages that related peace and happiness to one particular person/party; and recreated such life in ads that featured every imagined desire of voters. In urban populations, which are concrete manifestations of the anonymity inherent in the concept of ‘people,’ meditated communication gained a human face through the leader people could recourse to.

The change from a rural to a predominantly urban population, create ‘anonymity,’ mobility, and a widening distance from historical and cultural roots and that prepared the ground for new patterns of political communication. The rapid growth of two print forms of mediated communication, newspapers and magazines, offered the means of reaching a mass audience; thus transforming political communication into a bridge between commoner and leaders. Thus, while the evolution of the print media was considered one of the foundations of emerging political democracy; political communication was linked to the maintenance and growth of the new political culture. It seems almost inconceivable that we could have industrial democracy without of the political communication. Political communication through the rise of mediated communication has had a fundamental impact on society as a whole. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the components of political communication ad become the key to the operation of the election campaign.

Political communication is a broad term. It has been used to describe the “communication involved in winning elections, governing a nation, reporting on governmental activity, gathering and determining public opinion, lobbying, and socializing people into a nation’. This study has deliberately chosen to narrow the term and focus not on political communication, but rather on political campaign communication. It does not deny the validity of studying other forms of political communication. However, ‘in a democratic society, to govern one must first win an election. To report governmental activity, there must first be an elected government about which to report. To lobby, there must first be elected officials to be persuaded. To gather and determine public opinion about candidates and their progress, there must first be a campaign. And to socialize people so that they accept cultural norms, elected officials must first help set the norms”.

In other words, political campaign communication can be viewed as the root of all other forms of political communication.