Tag: Social Media
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Baudrillard, Media Manipulation, and the Social Media Landscape: Manufacturing Consent in Wartime
“We are no longer in a logic of the passage of virtual to actual but in a hyperrealist logic of the deterrence of the real by the virtual.” Baudrillard, J. (1995). The Gulf War did not take place. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Introduction Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a French philosopher and social theorist. He was a prominent figure in the…