03415cam a2200589 i 4500 23789903 BJBSDDR 20260930152720.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 240719s2024 nyu erb 001 0 eng d 2023553884 9780393881516 (hardcover) 0393881512 (hardcover) 23789903 (OCoLC)1398568649 YDX eng rda YDX BDX ETC OCLCO OCLCQ CLE OCLCO DLC eng lccopycat n-us--- JA 85.2 N548s 2024 320.014 Newitz, Annalee, 1969- 50459 Stories are weapons : psychological warfare and the American mind / Annalee Newitz. First edition. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. xxv, 246 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index. Preface: The brain fog of war -- Part I: Psyops. The mind bomb -- A fake frontier -- Advertisements for disenfranchisement -- Part II: Culture wars. Bad brains -- School rules -- Dirty comics -- Part III: Disarmament. History is a gift -- Deprogramming for democracy -- Public spheres of the future. "Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats--the essential tool kit for psychological warfare--have evolved from military weapons used against foreign adversaries into tools used in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and reaching its apotheosis with disinformation during twenty-first-century elections. The nation's secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling, fashioned by operatives who drew on their experiences in the ad industry and as science-fiction writers. Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, it has found its way into the hands of culture warriors, in conflicts from school-board fights over LGBTQ+ students to campaigns against feminist viewpoints. Stories Are Weapons delivers a powerful counter-narrative, as Newitz highlights the process of psychological disarmament, speaking with Indigenous archivists preserving their histories in new ways, activist storytellers, and technology experts transforming social media"-- Goodreads. Disinformation United States. Desinformación Estados Unidos 19128 Comunicación en política Estados Unidos 1961 Misinformation United States. Propaganda United States. International relations. Propaganda 3704 Estados Unidos Relaciones internacionales 152 Relations internationales. Désinformation. Mésinformation. Propagande. Propagande États-Unis. international relations. aat 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK llh 127962 127962 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2026-09-14 0 JA 85.2 N548s 2024 00000203840 2026-09-14 18:19:00 1 2026-09-14 BK