Mood Boards/Research

After researching what propaganda was, I looked into specific types of propaganda poster, which was from Britain in World War 2. From my research, I split the posters I found into categories of what message they were trying to convey.

These posters are all specialist recruitment posters. As most men were already in the army, many of these posters are targeted at women. There are also posters for RAF recruitment and looking for help in local communities. Examples of community help is the "Help Scotland's Harvest" poster. All of these posters are made to look positive, as they are meant to get people to join the army, factories, RAF, etc.The women in the recruitment posters all look important, or proud to be at their place of work, which can inspire other women to join these jobs.

I think that this would like well with Web 2.0 posters as social networking sites are always looking for new members, and those sites can be seen in a positive way on these posters.

To keep the morale high in the country, these posters were made. Some were meant to be motivational, such as the post with Winston Churchill and the picture of British countryside. Others are meant to help people carry on with everyday life despite the disruptions. The last few show the alliance between Britain and the colonies.

The posters showing the colonies together would work well for a Web 2.0 poster as they show different groups of people together, like social networking sites.

These posters were made to stop people talking carelessly in public as there may have been people listening. There are were many of these posters as it was important for enemies to not hear information.There were a series of posters for the "Careless Talk Costs Lives" campaign to show the seriousness of security concerns.

This fits in with Web 2.0 as there can be a lot of security problems on the internet, and people carelessly giving away their information. It could also be used to show the Anonymous community in a bad light.