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Politics, History & Society

Media, journalism & propaganda

Media, journalism & propaganda sits within Politics, History & Society. Pay attention to historical context, institutional power, and the perspective from which an argument is presented. This selection contains 334 catalog videos from 197 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include john oliver, propaganda, satire, video essay, misinformation and media criticism. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, news, other, podcast and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“In Search Of A Flat Earth”, listed under Folding Ideas, is cataloged as documentary. Dan Olson's 76-minute essay on flat earth belief, built around a hike to a lake to test earth's curvature. It examines the community, how YouTube promoted it, and how it connects to…

“The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"”, listed under JustAdamCurtis, is cataloged as documentary. The first part of Adam Curtis' documentary series on Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays, who invented public relations. It shows how Bernays used Freud's ideas to link mass-produced goods to…

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