Character Assassination and Reputation Management: Theory and Applications

by Eric B Shiraev, Sergei a Samoilenko, Jennifer Keohane, et al.

Book Overview

This lively book offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. In modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous individual reputations. How does character assassination "work" and when or why does it not? Are character attacks getting worse in the age of social media? Why do many people fail when they are under character...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138609188
• ISBN13: 9781138609181
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"