Control the Narrative

Control the Narrative

Author: Lida Citroën

Publisher: Kogan Page

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781398600836

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Let your reputation help your career. From recovering from a blunder to contemplating next steps, this guide helps you leverage your core values for career success.


Controlling the Narrative

Controlling the Narrative

Author: Josh Luberisse

Publisher: Fortis Novum Mundum

Published:

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13:

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Controlling the Narrative: The Definitive Guide to Psychological Operations, Perception Management, and Information Warfare is an essential resource designed for military professionals, strategists, policymakers, and scholars engaged in the intricate fields of psychological warfare and strategic communications. This comprehensive guide delves into the multifaceted aspects of psychological operations (PSYOP), perception management and information warfare, exploring the theories, practices, and tools that shape today’s information battle-spaces. Structured to provide a deep understanding of the historical evolution, strategic considerations, and modern applications of PSYOP, this book equips readers with the knowledge necessary to effectively execute operations that influence perceptions, decisions, and behaviors on the global stage. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, from the basic concepts of propaganda and media manipulation to sophisticated strategies involving cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. Each chapter in this guide is meticulously crafted to offer detailed insights and practical advice, enriched with case studies that highlight both successful and cautionary tales from past and present operations. The book emphasizes the importance of adhering to ethical and legal standards, providing readers with a clear framework for conducting operations that respect human rights and international laws. Controlling the Narrative also addresses the strategic imperatives for military and governmental organizations, including the need for ongoing adaptation to emerging technologies and the shifting geopolitical landscape. With its rigorous analysis and comprehensive coverage, the guide serves as an indispensable resource for those tasked with safeguarding national security and advancing military objectives through the strategic use of psychological and influence operations. This book is not only a manual but also a call to action, urging enhanced inter-agency collaboration, investment in research and development, and the cultivation of public-private partnerships to maintain a competitive edge in the evolving arena of global information warfare. It aims to inspire a new generation of strategic thinkers who are prepared to leverage the power of information in the pursuit of security, peace, and stability.


We Learn Nothing

We Learn Nothing

Author: Tim Kreider

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1439198713

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A "New York Times" political cartoonist and writer presents a collection of his most popular essays and drawings about life and government hypocrisy.


Interactive Storytelling

Interactive Storytelling

Author: Ido A Iurgel

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-24

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3642106420

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The rich programme of ICIDS 2009, comprising invited talks, technical pres- tations and posters, demonstrations, and co-located post-conference workshops clearly underscores the event’s status as premier international meeting in the domain. It thereby con?rms the decision taken by the Constituting Committee of the conference series to take the step forward: out of the national cocoons of its precursors, ICVS and TIDSE, and towards an itinerant platform re?ecting its global constituency. This move re?ects the desire and the will to take on the challenge to stay on the lookout, critically re?ect upon and integrate views and ideas,?ndingsandexperiences,andtopromoteinterdisciplinaryexchange,while ensuring overall coherence and maintaining a sense of direction. This is a signi?cant enterprise: The challenges sought are multifarious and must be addressed consistently at all levels. The desire to involve all research communitiesandstakeholdersmustbematchedbyacknowledgingthedi?erences in established practises and by providing suitable means of guidance and int- duction, exposition and direct interaction at the event itself and of lasting (and increasingly:living) documentation, of which the present proceedings are but an important part.


Hit Lit

Hit Lit

Author: James W. Hall

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2012-04-10

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0812970950

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DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF WHAT MAKES A MEGA-BESTSELLER IN THIS ENTERTAINING, REVELATORY GUIDE What do Michael Corleone, Jack Ryan, and Scout Finch have in common? Creative writing professor and thriller writer James W. Hall knows. Now, in this entertaining, revelatory book, he reveals how bestsellers work, using twelve twentieth-century blockbusters as case studies—including The Godfather, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jaws. From tempting glimpses inside secret societies, such as submariners in The Hunt for Red October, and Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code, to vivid representations of the American Dream and its opposite—the American Nightmare—in novels like The Firm and The Dead Zone, Hall identifies the common features of mega-bestsellers. Including fascinating and little-known facts about some of the most beloved books of the last century, Hit Lit is a must-read for fiction lovers and aspiring writers alike, and makes us think anew about why we love the books we love.


Narrative and Social Control

Narrative and Social Control

Author: Dennis K. Mumby

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1993-08-24

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0803949324

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What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This critical analysis examines the role of narrative in the creation of various social realities. The central theme is that narrative is a pervasive form of human communication integral to the production and shaping of social order. Each chapter provides both a theoretical framework and an examination of narratives in a range of communication contexts - interpersonal, small group, organizational and mass media - illustrating the far-reaching impact of narrative on our lives and social organizations.


Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience

Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience

Author: David Denborough

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-01-06

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0393709132

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Powerful ideas from narrative therapy can teach us how to create new life stories and promote change. Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in which we understand and share the stories of our lives therefore make all the difference. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell our stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and ease our sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdoms from the field of narrative therapy, this book is designed to help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives. The book invites readers to take a new look at their own stories and to find significance in events often neglected, to find sparkling actions that are often discounted, and to find solutions to problems and predicaments in unexpected places. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like the externalizing problems - 'the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem' -and the concept of "re-membering" one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises demonstrate how these ideas have helped many people overcome intense hardship and will help readers make these techniques their own. The book also outlines practical strategies for reclaiming and celebrating one's experience in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. Filled with relatable examples, useful exercises, and informative illustrations, Retelling the Stories of Our Lives leads readers on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future.


Narrative Economics

Narrative Economics

Author: Robert J. Shiller

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0691212074

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From Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.


Shift the Narrative

Shift the Narrative

Author: Russell Redenbaugh

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1630477389

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Shift is a blind man’s vision of how he changed his life narrative from the impossible to the economically probable and in the process, moved from welfare to wealth. Blind from the age of 16, Russell Redenbaugh's achievement as a successful investor and economist, a Commissioner on the US Civil Rights Commission serving under three US Presidents and a black belt, three time gold medal jiu-jitsu world champion fighting sighted opponents, prove that if he can, anyone can. Most people think that their circumstances produce their narratives, but Russell shows it is their narratives that produce their circumstances. If you change your story, you change your future. Through a set of actions and behaviors, Russell demonstrates how anyone can "Shift Your Narrative" to produce more of what they care about in their personal life, career and money matters, starting today.


Remote Control

Remote Control

Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Publisher: Tordotcom

Published: 2021-01-19

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1250772796

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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor “She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.” The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa—a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks—alone, except for her fox companion—searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion? Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award (audiobook version). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.