America's Post-Truth Phenomenon (eBook, ePUB)

When Feelings and Opinions Trump Facts and Evidence
Redaktion: Prado, C. G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents absorbing and critical expert perspectives on the post-truth phenomenon that has infiltrated the U.S. political system, media, and populace.

Deception in politics is nothing new, but the quantity of unsubstantiated statements in America today is unprecedented. False notions, fake news, "alternative facts," and opinions are being pitched from sources including the White House, Congress, and the American population via Twitter, Facebook, and online news sites as well as print, television, and radio. Such a widespread spectacle instantly captures the attention of people nationwide, but disagreement has the nation almost bordering on civil war over the definition of "the truth" and what this book calls "post-truth."

In this text, C.G. Prado and expert contributors present varied perspectives on post-truth, its authoritarian implications for the nation, and how we can approach information to differentiate between truth and post-truth. Speaking to general readers, students, and scholars alike, chapters include text on the historical and social events that initiated and developed post-truth and why some people are more prone than others to accept and perpetuate post-truth. They also discuss post-truth as a threat to democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216045335
• Artikelnr.: 68165095

Autorenporträt

C.G. Prado is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. His publications include America's Post-Truth Phenomenon and Social Media and Your Brain.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: The New Subjectivism C. G. Prado Chapter 2
Truth Claims, Interpretation, and Addiction to Conviction Mark Kingwell
Chapter 3 Because I Say So: Media Authenticity in the Age of Post-Truth and
Fake News Greg Kelly Chapter 4 Post-Truth: Marcuse and New Forms of Social
Control Lisa Portmess Chapter 5 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the
Manipulation of Crowds Sergio Sismondo Chapter 6 The Post-Truth
Temperament: What Makes Belief Stray from Evidence? And What Can Bring Them
Back Together? Juan Pablo Bermúdez Chapter 7 Reality for the People
Khadija Coxon Chapter 8 Truth and Trolling Jason Hannan Chapter 9 Truth,
Post-Truth, and Subscriptions: Consensus, Truth, and Social Norms in
Algorithmic Media Alex Leitch Chapter 10 Lords of Mendacity Paul Fairfield
Chapter 11 Losing the Feel for Truth in Post-Truth "Democracies": When
Macro Data Harvesting and Micro-Targeting Befuddle Democratic Thought
Chris Beeman Chapter 12 Brazen New World: A Peircean Approach to Post-Truth
Mark Migotti Chapter 13 The Fallacy of Post-Truth Lawrie McFarlane About
the Editor and Contributors Index