2.6 Coercive Communications: A Conversation with Christopher Simpson

Media Democracy Pod

This week Tom and Dan are joined by Professor Christopher Simpson to talk about his 1994 book The Science of Coercion. We explore the drivers of innovation in coercive communication, its origins in the military and the ways in which its techniques and assumptions have bled into academia and business. We go on to talk about the state of the art in modern propaganda and about the communications challenges facing democratic and egalitarian politics. Music by Makaih Beats.