Definition
Public mind control is applying mass instruments and techniques in order to nudge the collective mind of a target nation, community, or group of people toward the manipulators’ desirable direction or objective.
Introduction
While Carpignano et al. (1990) and the other mass media scholars in the 1990s and before were blaming television as having a corrupting and degenerating nature for the public mind, they were hardly assuming that the former unidirectional impacting and shaping the public mind will change to a more sophisticated interactive situation, where the cyber-media and companies could receive even the most hidden intentions and aspects of public mind and access an influential medium via the stupendous public data to make the public cyber-hegemony of our era....
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Forouharfar, A. (2020). Cyber-tech Companies and Public Mind Control. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3889-1
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