Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)

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Synopsis
This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, 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.
Copyright:
2024

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
242 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781003835936
Related ISBNs:
9781032484211, 9781032484198, 9781003388975
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Jayson Harsin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Communication, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Jayson Harsin

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