CONTENTS

List of contributors

Introduction: Propaganda in the information age

Alan MacLeod

1    Still manufacturing consent: an interview with Noam Chomsky

Alan MacLeod and Noam Chomsky

2    A propaganda model for the TWENTY-FIRST century: structure-agency dynamics and the intersection of class, gender and race

Florian Zollmann

3    Assessing the strength of the five filters today

Alan MacLeod

4    Fake news, Russian bots and Putin’s puppets

Alan MacLeod

5    Deflective source propaganda: a Syrian case study

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

6    Expanding the propaganda model to the entertainment industry: an interview with Matthew Alford

Alan MacLeod and Matthew Alford

7    Still compromising news: obfuscation and evasion as dominant filters in Indian media’s coverage of the IL&FS financial scandal

Tabassum Ruhi Khan

8    International public relations and the propaganda model: a critical analysis of Bollywood blockbusters

Azmat Rasul

9    Still manufacturing consent in the digital era: disinformation, “fake news” and propaganda in the 2017 elections in Kenya

Jacinta Mwende Maweu

10    Working inside the racket: an insider’s perspective to the elite media

Matt Kennard

Conclusion: New media, same old rules

Alan MacLeod

Index