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Propaganda is a form of communication, often biased or misleading in nature, aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause, position or political agenda. Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively (perhaps lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information presented. While the term propaganda has acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples, propaganda in its original sense was neutral and could refer to uses that were generally positive, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to law enforcement. ==Etymology== ''Propaganda'' is a modern Latin word, the gerundive form of ''propagare'', meaning ''to spread'' or ''to propagate'', thus ''propaganda'' means ''that which is to be propagated''.〔Oxford dictionary.〕 Originally this word derived from a new administrative body of the Catholic Church (congregation) created in 1622, called the ''Congregatio de Propaganda Fide'' (''Congregation for Propagating the Faith''), or informally simply ''Propaganda''.〔Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011) (''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice'' ) p. 48〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Online Etymology Dictionary )〕 Its activity was aimed at "propagating" the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries.〔 From the 1790s, the term began being used also for ''propaganda'' in secular activities.〔 The term began taking a pejorative connotation in the mid-19th century, when it was used in the political sphere.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Propaganda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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