Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust

Globality, Culture, Affect
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-48419-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harsin, Jayson

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jayson Harsin is Associate Professor of Media and Politics and Director of the Center for Media, Communication & Global Change, American University of Paris. He has published widely on the relationship of deception, popular media, and politics, in the context of cultural globalization.