Opinión pública y propaganda: su definición, interpretación y significado en los Estados Unidos de la primera posguerra (1918-1922)

• Dario Migliucci ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
• Localización: Historia y política: Ideas, procesos y movimientos sociales, ISSN-e 1989-063X, ISSN 1575-0361, Nº 40, 2018, págs. 213-238
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.18042/cepc/hp.40.08
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Public opinion and propaganda: Their definition, interpretation and meaning in the United States at the beginning of the interwar period (1918-1922)
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  • español

    El presente trabajo reconstruye la forma en la que los conceptos «propaganda» y «opinión pública» eran definidos y percibidos por los intelectuales y políticos norteamericanos en los primeros años después del fin de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Las fuentes documentales analizadas por este estudio fueron producidas por científicos sociales (obras académicas), periodistas (artículos de prensa) y representantes de las instituciones federales (discursos presidenciales) de la época. La tesis central de la investigación es que precisamente en el periodo que ha sido objeto de estudio se dio un radical giro interpretativo en la valoración de las nociones «propaganda» y «opinión pública», debido sobre todo a las experiencias propagandísticas de la guerra, las frecuentes campañas de agitación de movimientos políticos radicales y la consolidación de nuevos y más eficaces medios de comunicación. Se defiende además que estas primeras reflexiones eruditas constituyeron el caldo de cultivo en el que se originó el célebre debate sobre construcción del consenso democrático que caracterizó el periodo de entreguerras.

  • English

    The present work reconstructs the way in which the concepts of ‘propaganda’ and ‘public opinion’ were defined and perceived by American intellectuals and policy- makers during the first years following the end of the Great War. The documentary sources analyzed for this study were produced by social scientists (academics works), journalists (press articles) y politicians (presidential speeches) of that time. The central thesis of the research is that, as for the interpretation of the notion of ‘propaganda’ and ‘public opinion’, a radical interpretative shift took place in that period as a consequence of the propagandistic experiences of the war, the recurrent radical movements’ informative campaigns and the emergence of new and more efficient mass media. It is stated that these first scholarly postulates constituted the breeding ground for the emergence of the well-known debate on the manufacture of consent that characterized the interwar period.

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