ISBN:
9781003835936
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media-Political aspects
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Mass media and public opinion
;
Mass media Political aspects
;
Truthfulness and falsehood Political aspects
;
Disinformation Political aspects
;
Mass media and public opinion
;
Essays
Abstract:
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Post-truth as Globalizing Public Mood (Indefinite, Anxious, Dystopic) -- 2 Media and the Restyling of Politics 20 Years On: A Note (March 2023) -- 3 The Post-truth of Rape -- 4 Wikiality Within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-truth Era -- 5 Redpilling and the Archaic Roots of Patriarchal Post-truth -- 6 The Nordic Far Right and the Production of Gut Feelings -- 7 Fake Mirror Selfies and the Reproduction of Generalized Cultural Distrust -- 8 Seeing Through the Fog of War: Assessing Epistemic Burden Around Cheapfakes and Deepfakes of Geopolitical Crisis -- 9 The Truth About Influence -- 10 Post-truth in Turkey: Political Economy of Media and Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism -- 11 Ethno-Nationalist Drivers of the Indian Media Truth-Telling Crisis -- 12 Rumoring as Contention in the Chinese Digital Sphere -- Index.
Abstract:
"This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, beyond misinformation and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics. Situating post-truth in specific contexts as a site of contestation or crisis, the book critically explores it as a dynamic and shifting site around which political and cultural practices in specific contexts revolve and overlap. Through a breadth of perspectives, the volume considers a number of overlapping cultural and political developments across varying national and transnational contexts: changing technologies and practices of cultural production that sometimes shift and at other times reproduce authority of traditional institutional truth-tellers; seismic cultural changes in representations, values and roles regarding gender, sexuality, race and historical memory about them, as well as corresponding reactionary discourses in the "culture wars"; questions of authenticity, honesty, and power relations that combine many of the former shifts within an all-encompassing culture of (self-) promotional, attentional capitalism. These considerations lead scholars to focus on corresponding shifting cultural dynamics of popular truth-telling and (dis-) trust-making that inform political culture. In this more global view, post-truth becomes foremost an influentially anxious public mood about the struggles to secure or undermine publicly accepted facts. This nuanced and insightful collection will interest scholars and students of communication studies, media and cultural studies, media ethics, journalism, media literacy, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and politics"--
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