Use of Manipulative Techniques in the State Information Policy Realization

Student: Kulagina Ekaterina

Educational Programme: Public Administration (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In consuming mass media products on a daily basis, we unknowingly become manipulated by such entities as the government. The government uses manipulative techniques when enforcing public communications policy. However, modern society tends to see manipulation as an unfair and immoral method of governing. Can this be considered true, or does the government manipulate the public for a good cause at times? The theoretical part of the paper deals with such notions as ‘public communications policy’, ‘public consciousness manipulation’, as well as offers a classification of manipulative techniques. The empirical part consists of two steps: public survey and government content analysis, in which different types of existing manipulations are studied.

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