Create Propaganda

Can you make someone love a topic or hate it through the use of language and images? Use what you are learning about propaganda to create it yourself.

Create Propaganda to Demonstrate Your Understanding of How It Works

Steps in the Process

1. Focus on a Topic or Issue of Interest to You. Select a topic of interest from the Do Something website. Ask permission of the instructor if you would like to choose another topic that’s not on this list. Learn what you can about the topic and issue in order to develop a plan for your propaganda initiative.

2. Create to Learn. Create 1 form of propaganda to accomplish the goal of the campaign. Choose from these options:

• blog post
• press release
• infographic
• collection of 5 memes
• poster
• video, 60–90 seconds
• radio ad
• collection of 5 social media posts

3. Comment on and Analyze Your Work. Reflect on the experience of creating propaganda. Write an essay about your work, explaining your creative choices and strategy. How did you apply what you learned about propaganda? What did you like or dislike about the experience? (Word count: 1,000–1,500 words)

4. Publish Your Work. You publish your work on the class publication, the Propaganda COM 416 Medium website. Here are the steps in the process.

1. Create an account on Medium using your URI email.
2. Place your Medium user name on this LIST OF COM416 Blog Writers
3. Your instructor will then make you a designated writer for the class blog.
4. Create your propaganda and then compose your essay.
5. When you have completed your work, follow these instructions to submit your work to the class publication. More information is available here.