Name: Crystallizing Public Opinion
SKU: 52059022
Price: 574.00 TWD
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Author: Edward Bernays
ISBN: 9781722502805

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edward Bernays

Publisher

G&D Media

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

234

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781722502805

Synopsis "Crystallizing Public Opinion "

A seminal work on how public opinion is created and shaped, Edward Bernays' 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence public attitudes over the past century. With his view that the public behaves like herds of animals, Bernays outlines how to control the masses in whatever way the influencer chooses. With a glimpse into the world of propaganda and advertising, he shows how ideas as different as eating bacon for breakfast and preferring women to be thin were put into our heads. By adapting the ideas that Bernays put forth in this book, governments and advertisers have been able to “regiment the mind.” Bernays’ work explains a large part of the popularity of today’s TV news shout-fest and angry social media posts. Bernays wrote, “crowds love a contest.” This dynamic fuels the hostile and sarcastic comment chains that populate Twitter and Facebook and taps into what Bernays called “the ‘herd’ point of view,” which results in mass audiences, mass products and mass-media events.Bernays was named as one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century by Life magazine. He counted among his clients the American Tobacco Company, several U.S. presidents and the opponents of the Guatemalan revolution.

Edward Bernays

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Edward Louis Bernays (1891–1995) fue un publicista y teórico estadounidense, considerado uno de los fundadores de las relaciones públicas modernas. Sobrino de Sigmund Freud, incorporó conceptos del psicoanálisis al estudio de la opinión pública, desarrollando estrategias para influir en el comportamiento colectivo a través de los medios, los símbolos y la emoción. A lo largo del siglo XX asesoró a gobiernos, corporaciones y organizaciones civiles, contribuyendo a profesionalizar la comunicación persuasiva en contextos políticos, sociales y comerciales. Su trabajo sentó las bases de una disciplina que transformó la relación entre masas, poder y comunicación.

Entre sus obras más influyentes destaca Propaganda (1928), un ensayo clave donde expone cómo se moldean las ideas y actitudes en las sociedades democráticas modernas. Otros textos como Crystallizing Public Opinion y The Engineering of Consent profundizan en sus métodos y teorías. Su legado sigue siendo objeto de debate por su impacto ético y su enorme influencia en la publicidad, la política y la cultura contemporánea.

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