Sociology of communication processes in current scenarios and the “manipulation of news”

Monica Calderaro, Vincenzo Mastronardi and Ionut Virgil Serban
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Monica Calderaro: University of International Studies, Rome, Italy
Vincenzo Mastronardi: University of International Studies, Rome, Italy
Ionut Virgil Serban: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

Sociology and Social Work Review, 2025, vol. 9, issue 2, 49-61

Abstract: This study examines the sociological processes underlying social influence, beginning with early military psychological operations (PSYOP) involving news manipulation and tracing their development toward contemporary techniques of persuasion. It focuses on the mechanisms through which influence is exerted and on the core principles involved in directing human behavior. The analysis also addresses mass suggestion, crowd psychology, and the erosion of individual identity, drawing on the foundational contributions of Gustav Le Bon and Sigmund Freud. These perspectives provide a framework for introducing eight typologies of the “change process” and for analyzing the corresponding reduction of individual volitional capacity.

Keywords: social influences; sociology of communication; manipulation news; social influences; military psychological operations (PSYOP); crowd psychology; human behavior. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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