Public Opinion in Mass Society: Chances to Stir up "Silent Majority"

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-16.2016.164How to use a DOI?

Keywords

public opinion; "silent majority"; mass society; manipulating public opinion; attitude towards adoption

Abstract

This article dispels some of the most popular myths about the "knowledge society" and the delusions they create regarding intellectuals and intellectual activities. The analysis makes use of both research (M. McLuhan, M. Foucault, U. Eco, R. Collins) and literary (M. Bradbury) sources. Ideally, the reader should be tempted to arrive at a rather positive conclusion as regards the intrinsic ambivalence of knowledge and its live environment traditionally populated by intellectuals in our society.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Liubov Bronzino
AU  - Olga Maximova
AU  - Sofia Shatalina
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Public Opinion in Mass Society: Chances to Stir up "Silent Majority"
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 663
EP  - 667
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-16.2016.164
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-16.2016.164
ID  - Bronzino2015/09
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