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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Walter Lippmann"”.
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Walter Lippmann and American Democracy
… the prominent journalist and political thinker Walter Lippmann within the intellectual history of American democracy in the early twentieth century. It argues that he shaped this history more distinctively and more contingently than the existing scholarship allows. Contesting the elitist vision …
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Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler
… in the context of twentieth century philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. Reporter functions demonstrated by Shilts are examined, including those dictated by expectations of either strong journalistic influence over society and media consumers, or those more aligned with democratic …
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Propaganda, surveillance and cyberspace: consequences of online dirty tricks
… actors online? Will society descend into what Walter Lippmann has described as a phantom public that is devoid of lucid thought and the confidence to endure the modern cyber terrain? This research sets out to explore the ramifications of modern propaganda and surveillance measures in society. …
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Strategizing for peace: approaches to global security in crisis and war 1933-1953
… and Harold Nicolson ofthe United Kingdom and Walter Lippmann, Hans J. Morgenthau, and George Kennan ofthe United States. The dissertation proceeds along chronological lines, dividing the years upon which it focuses into interwar and postwar phases as a means of assessing the impact of the …
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Governing Visions of the Real. The New Zealand National Film Unit, Griersonian Documentary & State Publicity
… Such problematisations are traced back to Walter Lippmann and John Grierson. The latter developed a programme for democratic government through the use of documentary film that shaped the approach to film production taken by the NFU. By drawing on Michel Foucault's concepts of the …
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American intellectuals and the idea of an 'Atlantic Community' c.1890-1949
… main proponents, including Alfred Thayer Mahan, Walter Lippmann, Francis P. Miller, Reinhold Niebuhr and Clarence Streit. Although each strand had its specific focus and audience, all three of them shared the same underlying assumption: in order to tackle the issue of world order in a way …
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Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism
Walter Lippmann’s intellectual journey represents the journey of American liberalism in the 20th century: an attempted return from infatuation with the progressive ideals of inevitable historical development and scientific progress to the stability of human rights and freedom. America’s path to …