Original scientific paper

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RUMORS IN WAR

Marko Rupčić

Abstract

Rumors are constitutional part of unconventional form of struggle and their appearence can be seen from the begining of warfare. Although the significance of rumors is rarely crucial for the course of war, it`s influence is growing, especially in age of developed communication technology. In distinction from informations and misinformation spreaded by propaganda campaign the source of rumor is often hidden, the information is hard to verificate and is often treated as a most recent news. Rumors as unconventional weapon of propaganda was widely spread during the second World war. The volume of contamination by rumor depends on colective psychological factors and psycho-social attribute of individual. In this paper the author deals with ethiological portrait of usage of propaganda and rumors in war, their categorization and the technique of repulsing spreaded rumor.

Keywords

Propaganda; Psyhological Operations; Repulsing Rumors; Rumor; War

Hrčak ID:

41753

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/41753

Publication date:

22.6.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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