CONSTRUCTION OF DISPLACED REALITY VOLUME 1 - Manipulation in the Media and Communication Professions

“The Serpent Adam and Eve; the devil, Cain to kill Abel; Mephistopheles deceives Faust, and the fox deceives the crow. people to each other; sometimes one deceives oneself.” These are the opening lines of a chapter in the book, the message is clear: Manipulation is not new. As if one were sworn to deceive and be deceived, he displays an astonishingly consistent attitude! To attribute this situation, which is the common experience of humanity, to fate would be to miss an important issue. Because, according to logic and psychology, mind can be tempted; Emotions can be manipulated. The human mind is not that perfect. Communication-related research, especially rhetoric and persuasion studies, provides information on the "subtleties" of manipulation, and media and communication professionals are familiar with this information. This first volume of The Construction of Distorted Reality focuses on manipulation in media and communication practices. The book appeals not only to the "communication" circle, but also to the general readership in accordance with the context given above. To the audience that is surrounded by media networks with the current century...