The Russian propaganda guide to stealing your roommate’s burrito – June 7, 2018 Global Comment article

I follow Toomas Hendrik Ilves @IlvesToomas, who was the President of the Estonian Republic from 2006 to 2016, on Twitter.

In a recent tweet, Toomas Hendrik Ilves referred to the following article, which I am pleased to share with you.

The Russian propaganda guide to stealing your roommate’s burrito

The June 7, 2918 Global Comment article is entitled:

The Russian propaganda guide to stealing your roommate’s burrito

The article is concerned with three topics of interest to me, namely the dynamics of dynamics of propaganda, the defining characteristics of total institutions, and the processes whereby situations in life are defined, when viewed from (among other things) a dramaturgical perspective.

The latter topics – propaganda, total institutions, and how situations are defined – are addressed at previous posts including:

Falsehoods penetrate further, faster, and deeper than accurate information on Twitter: Massive MIT study

Erving Goffman’s “total institutions” warrant inclusion in a comprehensive theory of management

Erving Goffman began his graduate work in Chicago in 1945

 

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